Plate CLXXXIV. Male and Female.
Male with the head, hind neck, and back green, splendent with bronze
and golden reflections; wings dusky, changing to purplish-brown;
middle tail-feathers black, glossed with green and blue, the rest deep
crimson-purple, tipped and partially margined with steel-blue; fore
part of neck, and middle of breast velvet-black, margined on each side
with emerald-green, the sides yellowish-green, with a tuft of white
downy feathers; lower tail-coverts dark purple. Female with the upper
parts similar, the tail-feathers more broadly and extensively margined
with blue, and tipped with white; fore neck and centre of the breast
white, with a central longitudinal band of black, and an emerald-green
margin along the sides of the neck and body; lower tail-coverts green.
_Male_, 4-3/4, 8.
Florida Keys. Rare. Migratory.
Trochilus Mango, Linn. Syst. Nat. v. i. p. 191.
Mango Humming Bird, Trochilus Mango, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. ii. p.
480.