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semper est in motu, unde Todiu (al. Todinus) dicitur ille qui velociter todet et movetur ad modum todae, et todere, moveri et tremere ad modum todae." The See also:

EVIDENCE (Lat. evidentia, evideri, to appear clearly)

evidence that such a substantive as Todus or Toda existed seems to See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest on the adjectival derivative found in a fragment of a lost See also:

PLAY

play (Syrus) by See also:

PLAUTUS, TITUS MACCIUS (originally perhaps MACCUS; cf. Asin. Prol. 11)

Plautus, cited by this same Festus. It stands " cum extritis [extortis] talis, cum todillis [todinis] crusculis "; but the passage is held by scholars to be corrupt. Among naturalists See also:

Gesner in 1555 gave currency (Hisl. animalium, iii. 719) to the word as a substantive, and it is found in Levins's Manipulus vocabulorum of 1570 (ed. See also:

WHEATLEY, FRANCIS (1747–1801)

Wheatley, 1867, See also:

col. 225) as the See also:

EQUIVALENT

equivalent of the See also:

ENGLISH

English " tit-See also:

MOUSE

mouse." Ducange allows the existence of the See also:

ADJECTIVE (from the Lat. adjectives, added)

adjective todinus. Stephanus suggests that See also:

TODI (anc. Tuder)

todi comes from rvrOoi, but his view is not accepted. The verb todere may perhaps be Englished to " toddle "of a valid genus, though many See also:

SPECIES

species have been referred to it which are now known to have no See also:

affinity to the type, the Todus viridis of Jamaica, and accordingly have since been removed from it. The genus Todus was at one See also:

time placed among the Muscicapidae (cf. See also:

FLYCATCHER

FLYCATCHER); but J.

Murie's investigations (Prot. Zool. Society, 1872, pp. 664—680, ph lv.) have conclusively proved that it is not passerine, and is nearly allied to the Momotidae (cf. See also:

MOTMOT

MOTMOT) and Alcedinidae (cf. See also:

KINGFISHER (Ger.' Konigsfischer; Walloon Roi-peheux= pecheur)

KINGFISHER). it being regarded as forming a distinct sub-See also:

FAMILY

family Todinae of the Momotidae See also:

PECULIAR

peculiar to the Greater See also:

ANTILLES

Antilles, each of which islands has its own species, all of small See also:

SIZE

size, the largest not exceeding four inches and a See also:

HALF

half in length. Of the species already named, T. viridis, P. H. See also:

Gosse (B. Jamaica, From 72—80) gives an interesting See also:

account. " Always conspicuous from its See also:

bright grass-green, coat and, See also:

CRIMSON

crimson-See also:

VELVET

velvet See also:

GORGET (O. Fr. gorgete, dim. of gorge, throat)

gorget, it is S (After Gosse.) Tody (Todus viridis). still a very tame bird; yet this seems rather the tameness of indifference than of confidence ; it will allow a See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person to approach very near, and, if disturbed, alight on another twig a few yards distant .

. commonly it is seen sitting patiently on a twig, with the See also:

head See also:

DRAWN

drawn in, the See also:

BEAK (early forms beke and becke, from Fr. bec, late Lat. beccus, supposed to be a Gaulish word; the Celtic bec and beq, however, are taken from the English)

beak pointing upwards, the loose plumage puffed out, when it appears much larger than it is. It certainly has an See also:

air of stupidity when thus seen. But this See also:

ABSTRACTION (Lat. abs and trahere)

abstraction is more apparent than real; if we See also:

WATCH (in O. Eng. wcecce, a keeping guard or watching, from wacian, to guard, watch, wacan, to wake)

watch it, we shall see that the See also:

ODD (in middle English odde, from old Norwegian oddi, an angle of a triangle; the old Norwegian oddamann is used of the third man who gives a casting vote in a dispute)

odd-looking See also:

grey eyes are glancing hither and thither, and that ever and anon the bird sallies out upon a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short feeble See also:

FLIGHT

flight, snaps at something in the air, and returns to his twig to See also:

SWALLOW (A. S. swalewe, Icel. svala, Du. zwaluw, Ger. Schwalbe)

swallow it." The birds of the family also show their affinity to the kingfishers, motmots and See also:

BEE (Sanskrit blza, AS. ben, Lat. apis)

bee-eaters by burrowing holes in the ground in which to make their See also:

NEST

nest, and therein laying eggs with a See also:

white translucent See also:

shell. The sexes differ little in plumage. All the four species of Todus, as now restricted, See also:

PRESENT

present a See also:

general similarity of See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance, and possess very similar habits; and even these, by some ornithologists, might be regarded as See also:

GEOGRAPHICAL

geographical races. The Cuban See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form is T. multicolor; that of See also:

HAITI [HAITI, HAYTI, SAN DOMINGO, Or HISPANIOLA]

Haiti is T. subulatus or dominicensis; and that of See also:

PORTO

Porto Rico, originally named in See also:

ERROR (Lat. error, from errare, to wander, to err)

error T. mexicanus, has since been called hypochondriacus. (A.

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