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Mr. R. B. Sharpe on the Genus Todus. 
one above described in the colouring of the undersurface, 
which is white, tinged with yellow on the middle of the ab¬ 
domen and under tail-coverts; the throat is pale carmine-pink, 
. very thickly clouded with white margins to the feathers ; and 
the pink on the flanks is not nearly so much developed as in 
the male. I should not have doubted the sexual determina¬ 
tion of the female, had it not been for a third specimen, also 
procured from Mr. Cuming at the same time as the others. 
This bird is pure white underneath, excepting the under wing- 
and tail-coverts, which are yellow, and the pink flanks and 
throat-spot. It has a very narrow and slender bill, and is the 
Todus angustirostris of the f Hand-list/ Beyond this cha¬ 
racter and the white undersurface, the bird agrees with T. 
subulatus ; and my idea is that T. angustirostris is the female, 
and that the intermediate Cumingian specimen is the young 
male. The bird is a connecting link between the two ex¬ 
tremes, being intermediate in size of bill and length of wing. 
Should my suggestion prove correct, the following measure¬ 
ments may be compared :— 
Breadth of 
S. Domingo (Cuming). Tot. length. Wing. bill at nostril. 
a. ad. [P] .. 4-4 1*95 0-2 
b. 2 ad. [P] . 3-7 1-75 0-18 
c. s juv. [?]. 4-1 1-85 0.2 
Sexual difference may account for the length of bill in the 
Jamaican T. viridis referred to above; the variation of bill is 
illustrated in the plate, which represents the two specimens 
in the Museum, one of which (fig. 2) I consider to answer to 
T. angustirostris of Lafresnaye. 
Specimens examined. 
E. Mus. Brit. — a, b, c, ad. juv. S. Domingo (H. Cuming). 
E. Mus. P. L. Sclater. — a } ad. S. Domingo {Salle). 
3. Todus multicolor. 
Todus multicolory Gould, Icon. Av. pi. 2 (1837); D'Orb. 
Museum Register, according to the custom of that time, would be that 
of the collector’s agent and not that of the collector himself.— Ed.] 
