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MANGO HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus Mango. T. cupreo-viridis , stria gulari aldomineqw 

 atris, (ilisfusco-violaceis, caudaferniginea nigro marginata. 



Copper-green Huniming-Bird, with black descending throat- 

 stripe and abdomen, violet-brown wings, and ferruginous tail 

 edged with black. 



Trochilus Mango. T. curvirostris viridis nittns, rectricibus sub' 

 cequalibusferrugineis, abdomiue atro. Lin. Syst. Nat. 



Le Plastron noir. Buff. ois. Vidl. Colibr. pi. 7. 



Le Colibri de Mexique. PI. Enl. 630. f. 2. 3. 



Mango Humming-Bird . Lath. syn. 



LENGTH about four inches and a quarter, or 

 rather more : head, neck, back, and lower belly 

 green-gold, darkest on the sides of the belly: down 

 the breast and belly, from the under mandible, a 

 broad velvet-black stripe, edged with steel-blue; 

 sides of the breast blue : wings deep violet-brown or 

 blackish : tail purplish-chesnut, edged and tipped 

 .with black, but the two middle feathers gilded 

 violet-black: vent deep grey. The female is said 

 to differ in having the two middle tail-feathers 

 gold-green, like the back. Native of South Ame- 

 rica, and particularly of Brasil, but is said to be 

 found also in St. Domingo, Jamaica, and other 

 West-Indian islands. 



Dr. Latham mentions a variety of this species 

 in which the throat, on each side the black stripe, 

 was white. He also informs us that a pair of 

 young Humming-Birds, supposed to be of this 

 species, are reported, on unexceptionable testi- 



