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G e n u s XXV. T O D Y .
1. Green T . N” 8. Plumbeous T .
2. Cinereous T. Si- Dulky T .
3. Brown T . io. King T .
4. Blue T . u . Ferruginous-bellied T .
5. Variegated T . 12. White-chinned T .
6. White-headed T. i 3- Broad-billed T .
7. Short-tailed T . 14. Great-billed T.-
( IL L thin, depreffed, broad; bafe befet with briftles.
Noftrils fmall, oval.
Tongue.
Toes placed three before and one behind;' the middle one
greatly connected to the outer.
Birds of this genus inhabit the warmer parts of America. They
vary confiderably in their bills, as to breadth; but all of them
have a certain flatnefs, or depreffion, which is peculiar. They
have great affinity to the Flycatchers ; and indeed, to fpeak the
truth, the two genera run much into one another: however, in
one thing they differ materially ; for in the Fody, the outer and
middle toes are much connefled, whereas in the Flycatcher genus
they are divided to their origin : perhaps more might be brought
into this feflion; but, as many birds are only to be feen on
paper, if the draughtfman Ihould not think a juft expreffion of the
toes to be a matter of confequence, we mull remain in the dark,
where the writer has omitted it in the defcription.
Todus
O D Y .
Todus viridis, Lin. Syß. I. p. 178. N° 1.
Le Todièr, Brif. orn. iv. p. 528. N° 1. pi. 41. f. 2.
— ................ de l ’Amérique Septentrionale, Buf. oif. vii. p. 225. pi. ri.
- ..... - .. - de St. Domingue, PI. enl. 585. f. 1, 2.
•Green Sparrow, or green Humming-bird, Rati Syn. p. 187. N° 40.-
Sloan. Jam. ii. p. 506. pi. 263. f. 1.— Brown Jam. p. 476.— Edw.
pi. 121.
Green Tody, Gen, o f Birds, p. 61. pi. 6. f. 1.
Br. Mttf. Le-v. Muf.
C lZ E of a Wren: length four inches. Bill not quite three
quarters of an inch in length ; it is very much depreffed or
+■ GREEN - ■ pi11 TODY.
D escription.
flatted, like that of a Duck, and rounded at the tip; the upper
mandible is brown, the lower orange: irides hazel: the plumage
is of a beautiful and elegant green on the upper part of the
body; beneath yellowilh white : on the throat is a Ipot of very
fine red ; the legs and claws grey.
- The male, according to Buffon, has the upper part of the body
of a pale blue : the belly white; the breaft and fides rofe-
colour.,
This pretty fpecies is found in the warmer parts of the American
continent; alfo at St. Domingo, "Jamaica, and other iflands
of the Wejl Indies.
I have had feveral of thefe from Jamaica, where they are not
uncommon; but have never yet received, nor even feen, the male.
I am informed that it is a folitary bird, frequenting the lonely
part of moift places, where it is obferved to fit all of a heap, its
head drawn in between its Ihoulders, and fo ftupid as almoft to
foffer itfelf to be taken by the hand.
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