468 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Lampornis veraguensis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 140 (David, Pan- 

 ama); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 291.— Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. xv, May, 1858 

 (vol. ii, 1861), pi. 76 (Volcan de Chiriqui, Panam4); Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 

 1861, 65.— MuLSANT and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 24; Hist. Nat. 

 Ois.-Mouch., i, livr. 2, 1874, 146; iv, livr. 2, 1877, 153.— Lawrence, Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y., viii, 1867, 177 (David); ix, 1868, 121 (Costa Rica; error?).— 

 Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 153 (Da\dd); 1870, 207 (Cordillera del 

 Chucu and Calobre); Cat. Birds Brit. Mas., xvi, 1892, 99. — Frantzius, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 315 (Costa Rica; error?).— Elliot, Classif. Troch., 

 1879, 40.— Zeledon, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 20; Anal. Mus. Nac. 

 Costa Rica, i, 1887, 121. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 

 1892, 280 (Agua Dulce, etc., Panamd).— Boucard, The Hum. Bird, ii, 1892, 

 85; Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 333 (Colon, etc.). 



L[ampornis\ veraguensis Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 18. — Ridg- 

 WAY, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1890 (1891), 377 (diagnosis, etc.).— Hartert, 

 Das Tierreich, Troch., 1890, 99 (monogr.). 



[Polytmus] veraguensis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 125, no. 1578. 



ANTHRACOTHORAX DOMINICUS (Linnaus). 



HAITIAN MANGO. 



Adult male. — Above dark, rather dull, metallic bronze-green, some- 

 times intermixed with metallic grass green; middle pair of rectrices 

 dull metallic bronze, coppery bronze or violaceous-black;'* remain- 

 ing rectrices broadly margined terminally with violaceous-black, this 

 extending along the edge of each web for (approximately) the ter- 

 minal half, on the outer web of lateral rectrix to or near base; remiges 

 dusky brownish slate or dull violaceous-black; chin and throat metallic 

 bronze, or brassy bronze, usually passing laterally and posteriorly 

 into a more greenish hue, or uniform greenish bronze or bronze-green; 

 chest, breast, and abdomen — sometimes entire under parts of body — 

 opaque velvety 1)1 ack, sometimes duller or more sooty on lower 

 abdomen; sides and flanks sometimes (narrowly) dark metallic green 

 or bronze-green; under tail-coverts dusky or dark sooty basally, 

 darker and faintly glossed wdth bronze or greenish terminally, some- 

 times wholly violaceous black; femoral and lumbar tufts white; bill 

 dull black; iris brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 115-124 (119); 

 wing, 65.5-70.5 (67.9); tail, 40-46 (42.9); culmcn, 23-25 (23.8).^ 



Adult female. — Above rather bright bronze-green or greenish 

 bronze; middle pair of rectrices rather dull dusky greenish bronze 

 or bronze-green; other rectrices Avith basal lialf or more chestnut- 

 rufous, glossed with purple, tlie remainder (approximately the ter- 

 minal third) first black, then white, the latter in form of a terminal 

 spot, largest on outermost rectrix; remiges dusky brownish slate; 



« Salvin (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 97) describes the color of the middle rectrices 

 as "steel blue;" but I have never seen a specimen in which the color even distantly 

 approached that hue ! 



^ Ten specimens. 



