BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA, 459 



[Endoxa] mango Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 175. 

 Trochilus porphyrurus Shaw, Nat. Misc., ix, no. 9, May, 1798, pi. 333 ("South 



America and neighborine; islands''); Gen. Zool., viii, 1811, 296. 

 [Anihracolhorax. /?. Florcsia] porphyrurus Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854,11. 

 [Anthracothorax] porphyrurus Reichenbach, Troch. Enum., 1855, 8, pi. 795, figs. 



4849, 4850. 

 {Lampornis\ porphyrurus Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 250. — Mul- 



SANT, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 203. 

 Lampornis porphyrurus Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. xv, May, 1858 (vol. v, 1861 ), 



pi. 81; Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 67.— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 



291.— Mulsant and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 24; Hist. Nat. Ois.- 



Mouch., i, livr. 2, 1874, 163. 

 Lampornis porphyrura Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 79.- Albreciit, 



Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 201. 

 L[amportiis] porphyrura Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 19. 

 r[olytmus] porphyrurus Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1848, 108. 

 [Polytimts] porphyrurus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 126, no. 1589. 

 E[ndoxa'\ porphyrura Heine, Journ. fiir Orn., 1863, 179. 

 T[rochilus] fioresii Botjrcier and Mulsant, Ann. Sci. Phys. et Nat. d'Agric. 



Lyon, ix, 1846, 327 (Jamaica); Rev. Zool., 1846, 316. 

 [Lampornis] Jloresi Bonaparte, C'onsp. Av., i, 1850, 72; Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 



1854, 250. 



ANTHRACOTHORAX NIGRICOLLIS NIGRICOLLIS (Vieillot). 



BLACK-THROATED MANGO. 



Adult male. — Above metallic bronze-green, darker and duller on 

 pileum, more decidedly bronzy (sometimes pure golden or coppery 

 bronze) on rump; middle pair of rectrices varying from dull greenish 

 bronze to dusky, slightly glossed with bronze or greenish; remaining 

 rectrices deep maroon-chestnut, glossed with metallic purple, and 

 margined terminally with dark metallic greenish blue, or black 

 glossed with bluish or greenish, this extending along edge of outer 

 web of outermost rectrix for more than terminal lialf (sometimes 

 nearly to base); remiges dusky brownish slate; chin, throat, and 

 median portion of chest, breast, and abdomen plain velvety black, 

 faintly glossed with bluish when viewed from beliind; loral and 

 rictal regions, and thence along each side of the black area of middle 

 under parts as far as flanks, metallic greenish blue or bluish green 

 next to the black, passing outwardly through pure green into yel- 

 lowish green; under tail-coverts mixed metallic green and blackish; 

 femoral and lumbar tufts white; bill dull black; iris brown; feet 

 dusky; length (skins), 103-129 (113); wing, Gl.5-70.5 (66.9); tail, 

 34-40.5 (37.2); culmen, 21.5-25.5 (23.5).« 



Adult female. — Above similar to the adult male but lateral rectrices 

 with blackish terminal portion more extended, the tip (at least of 



« Thirty-three specimens. 



