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H-U MMING-EIR D, 



18. Trochilus Mango, Lin. Syjl.'x. p. 191. N° 10. 



MANGO ^ ,L e Colibri de la Jamaique, Brif. orn. iii. p. 679. N° 8. t. 35. f. 1. 



Le Plaftron noir, Buf. oif. vi. p. 59. 

 Colibri de la Jamaique, PI. enl. 680. f. 3. »?«/<;. 



Colibri du Mexique, f. 2. female. 



Guianumbi minor, roftro njgro, Raiijyn. p. 8.3. N°5. — Will. orn. p. zjs. 



N° 5. 

 Mango Humming-bird, Alhin.nl, t. 49. b. 



Description. J^ENGTH four inches and a third. Bill an inch long, not 

 much curved, and blackifh : the head and upper parts of the 

 body are green gold, with a copper glofs : throat, fore part of the 

 neck, breaft, belly, and fides, bright velvet black ; this colour is 

 feparated from that of the upper parts by a ftripe of very fhining 

 blue, which arifes at the corners of the mouth, and extends on 

 each fide of the neck and breaft : the thighs are brown : the vent 

 white : the under tail coverts violet brown : the quills and greater 

 coverts the fame : the two middle tail feathers are black, with a 

 gilded violet glofs ; thofe on the fides glofiy purpliih cheftnut, 

 and margined with a fteely black nearly all round 1 legs black. 

 Female. The female has the upper furface of the body and wings the 



fame as the laft, as are the chin and throat j but the breaft and 

 belly are black : the tail as in the other; but the outer feathers 

 have brown ends, the two middle ones being green, like the upper 

 parts of the body. 

 p LACEg Inhabits Mexico, Brq/tl, and Si. Domingo ; Albin fays alfo Ja- 



maica -, and that it builds its neft in the phyfic-mtt tree, making it 

 of cotton, and laying two white eggs, as big as peas. 

 ,¥a*ie,ty. I have feen a variety of the male of this bird, having the throat 



and 



