458 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



greater wing-coverts dusky bronze or very dark bronze-greenish; 

 remiges dull brownish slate or dusky, the secondaries usually faintly 

 glossed with bronze-greenish; under parts plain velvety black, 

 glossed with bluish green when viewed from behind, the under tail- 

 coverts more strongly glossed with greenish; loral, rictal, and auricu- 

 lar regions and sides of neck bright metallic purple or reddish purple 

 (aster purple to violet); femoral and lumbar tufts white; bill dull 

 black; iris brown; feet dusky; length (skuis), 117-130 (126); wing, 

 69-77 (73.5); tail, 38.5-44.5 (41.6); culmen, 25-30 (26.8). « 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but coloration decidedly 

 duller (especially the black of under parts), tail less brilliant, and 

 rectrices margined terminally (more or less distinctly) with pale 

 grayish or dull whitish; length (skins), 123-136 (127); wing, 69.5-75 

 (71.2); tail, 40.5-43.5 (41.7); culmen, 26-29 (27.6).« 



Immature? — Similar to adults, as described above, but chin and 

 throat dull metallic bluish green (viewed from in front), middle rec- 

 trices more blackish (less metallic), and outer two or three rectrices 

 (on each side) tipped, more or less, with whitish. ^ 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles (Metcalfe Parish; Hope Gar- 

 dens; Port Antonio; Port Henderson; Kingston; Spanishtown; 

 Priestmans River; Moneague). 



{Trochilus\ mango Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 128 (based on Mellivora 

 mango Albin, Av., iii, 45, pi. 49, fig. 1); ed. 12, i, 1766, 191 (cites Mellivora 

 avis maxima Sloane, Nat. Hist. Jam., ii, 305, pi. 264, fig. 3). — Gmelin, Syst. 

 Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 491.— Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 307. 



Trochilus mango Lesson, Index Gen. et Synop. Troch., 1832, p. x, part (Jamaica). 



Lampornis mango Gosse, Birds Jam., 1847, 88; lllustr. Birds Jam., 1849, pi. 18. — 

 March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 284.— Elliot, Ibis, 1872, 350 (crit.); 

 Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 39. — Mulsant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. 

 Ois.-Mouch., iv, livr. 2, 1877, 155 (crit.).— Ridg way, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 iii, 1880, 311.— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 349; Birds West Ind., 1889, 144; Cat. 

 West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12, 106, 130.— Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 

 1892, 91.— Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 277.— Field, Auk, xi, 1894, 125 (Port Hen- 

 derson).— Boucard, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 327.— Lodge, Ibis, 1896, 497 

 (habits). 



[Lavipornis] mango Sclater and Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 81. — Cory, 

 List Birds West Ind., 1885, 17.— Sharps, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 118. 



Llam-pornis] mango Newton, Handb. Jam., 1881, 108. — Hartert, Das Tierreich, 

 Troch., 1900, 97. 



a Ten specimens. 



^This green-throated plumage was considered by Gould that of the adult female; 

 but, judging from the material examined, I am inclined to agree with Mr. SaK-in 

 (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 92) in considering that it represents birds of both sexes in 

 immature dress. 



