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MANGO HUMMING-BIRD. 



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



atris, alisfuscO'ViolaceiSi cauda ferruginea nigra mar ghiatai 

 Copper-green Humraing-Bird, with black descending tliroat- 



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



edged with black. 

 Trochilus Mango. T. curvirostris vifidis nitens, rectricibus sub-* 



cequalibus femigineis, abdomiue afro. Lin. Si/st, Nat, 

 Le Plastron noir. Buf. ois. Viell. Colibr. pi. 7. 

 Le Cofibri de Mexique. PI. Enl. 680./. 2. 

 Mango Humming-Bird. Lat/i. 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 FIumming-Birds, supposed to be of this 

 ^species, are reported, on unexceptionable testi- 



