378 report of national museum, 1890. 



The Mango (Gould). 



Mango Humming Bird (Audubon). 



Black- throated Humming Bird (Coues). 



Le Lamporuis mango (Mulsant and Verreaux). 



Range. — Northern South America, from the Isthmus of Panama to 

 Brazil and eastern Peru; accidental at Key West, Florida? 



Sp. chap*. — Adult male golden green above, middle tail-feathers 

 darker; rest of tail rich chesnut, glossed with purple, the feathers 

 broadly margined at ends with purplish black ; median portion of body 

 beneath opaque black, the lateral portions metallic blue anteriorly, 

 bronze-green posteriorly. Adult female with median under parts 

 black, bordered along each side by white; tail-feathers more extensively 

 black terminally, the three outermost often with whitish tips. 



Adult male (No. 11936S, Panama, 1862; J. McLeannan): Above bronze- 

 green, darker and less bronzy on top of head ; middle pair of tail-feath- 

 ers dull greenish black ; other rectrices deep purplish chestnut, richly 

 glossed with metallic violet, each feather broadly margined terminally 

 with'glossy blue-black, and with the shaft clear chestnut; outer feather 

 with outer web broadly edged with purplish black ; remiges dusky, very 

 faintly glossed with purplish. Chin, throat, chest, and middle line of 

 breast and belly opaque velvety black, that of the chin, throat, and 

 chest bordered laterally by a band of metallic blue, gradually passing 

 into green on the sides of the neck; sides and flanks bronze-green; 

 under-tail coverts dark metallic green, the basal portion of the feathers 

 dusky ; downy tufts between flanks and rump, pure white. Bill black, 

 feet dusky. Length, skin, 4.10; wing, 2.60; tail, 1.45 (middle feath- 

 ers, 1.35; exposed culmen, 0.85. 



Adult female (No. 2702, " South America; " J. Cassin) : Top of head 

 dull grayish brown, glossed with bronze-green ; rest of upper parts 

 bronze-green, mixed with golden bronze ; middle tail feathers dull bot- 

 tle-green, with dusky tip; next feather with outer web similar, but 

 inner web dull blue-black for terminal half and greenish dusky basally, 

 with a small spot of cbesnut about one-third the distance from the tip; 

 next with more than the basal third green on outer web, dusky on inner, 

 the remaining portion blackish terminally and laterally, the central 

 portion occupied by a broadly lanceolate patch of chestnut, about 0.50 

 of an inch long, the extreme tip of the feather white ; next feather sim- 

 ilar, but chestnut patch and white terminal spot both more extensive, 

 the latter passing into rusty anteriorly; outer feather chestnut, with 

 base, broad margin to outer web, and still broader terminal margin of 

 inner web (both reaching nearly to the shaft near end of the feather) 

 black, the tip dull whitish and the shaft nearly pure white. Sides of 

 head similar to top, but darker; chin, sides of throat, and malar region, 

 together with breast and belly (except along median line), white; a vel- 

 vety black stripe extending from upper part of the throat along median 

 line of under surface as far as the lower belly ; sides of neck bright 



