354 Mr. R. B. Sharpe on the Genus Todus. 
green ; forehead lighter and rather more olive-green than the 
back, and tinged with orange near the base of the beak; lores 
tinged with orange; sides of face yellowish green; sides of 
neck dull rufous; chin white; throat bright carmine, with 
silvery white margins to most of the feathers; rest of under¬ 
surface with a light crimson blush, varied on the breast with 
white oval spots to the feathers, producing an ocellated appear¬ 
ance, the crimson colour brightest on the flanks, shading off 
into ochraceous buff on the sides of the vent; on each side of the 
upper breast a patch of greenish; under wing-coverts ochra¬ 
ceous buff, the outermost smaller coverts washed with pale 
carmine; upper mandible blackish, lower one yellowish; feet 
black. Total length 3*5 inches, culmen 0*85, wing 1*9, tail 
1*4, tarsus 0*65. 
Hah . Jamaica [?]. 
This new species comes nearest to T. subulatus of S. Do¬ 
mingo, having, like that species, the white ocellations on the 
breast; but it differs from that bird and all other members of 
the genus by its brilliant coloration below, and by its being 
bluish green above. 
The type is in the British Museum. 
5. Todus hypochondriacus. 
Todus viridis , Desm. H. N. Tang. &c. pi. 67 (nec Linn.); 
Vieill. Gal. Ois. i. pi. cxxiv. (1825). 
Todus mexicanus , Less. Ann. Sc. Nat. xi. p. 167; Lafr. R. 
Z. 1847, p. 333; Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 63 (1847); id. Cat. 
Eissir. B. M. p. 36 (1848); Bp. Consp. i. p. 182 (1850) „ 
Baird, Ibis, 1867, p. 260; Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 79 (1869). 
Todus hypochondriacus, Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. xi. 
p. 39 (1866); Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 103 (1873). 
Adult. Above grass-green, brighter on sides of face and 
over the eye; forehead and lores tinged with yellow; quills, 
blackish, margined with the green of the back, the second¬ 
aries almost entirely of the latter colour; tail green, rather 
duller than the back ; chin white; throat very brilliant crim¬ 
son, with slight silvery white margins; below the throat a 
small line of white; moustachial streak white, shading off 
