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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM.
Lampornis dominicus (not Trochilus dominicus Linnæus) Elliot, Ibis, 1872, 349, part (St. Thomas; Porto Rico; synon.; crit.); Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 41, part (Porto Rico; St. Thomas).
(?)Trochilus mango (not of Linnæus) Lesson, Hist. Nat. Colibr., 1830-31, 66, pl. 15 (Porto Rico).
[Lampornis] margaritaceus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 72 (Porto Rico).
Lampornis viridis (not Trochilus viridis Audebert and Vieillot) Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. xxi, 1861 (vol. ii), pi. 78, part (supposed female!); Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 66, part. — Elliot, Ibis, 1872, 348, part (supposed female); Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 40, part (supposed female!). — Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 349, part (supposed female!); Birds West Ind., 1889, 144, part (supposed female!); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12, 106, 132.— Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 100, part (supposed female!). — Boucard, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 334, part (supposed female!).
L[ampornis] viridis Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 99, part (supposed female!).

ANTHRACOTHORAX VIRIDIS (Audebert and Vieillot).

GREEN MANGO.

Adults (sexes alike).[1] — Above metallic green, bronze-green, or (rarely) bronze, duller on pileum, the lower rump and upper tail- coverts purer green (metallic grass green or sea green) ; tail metallic blue-black or dark steel blue, the lateral rectrices sometimes very narrowly margined at tip with grayish or grayish white; remiges dusky brownish slate, very faintly glossed with violet; under parts metallic bluish green (french green or between grass green and sea green), the under tail-coverts sometimes narrowly margined terminally with whitish; femoral and lumbar tufts white (the latter small and concealed); bill black; iris dark brown; feet dusky.

Young. — Not materially different in coloration from adults, but some specimens, at least, have the feathers of the under parts narrowly and very indistinctly margined terminally with pale grayish brown, or else have the green of the anterior under parts darker and duller.[2]

Adult male. — Length, (skins), 107-116 (111); wing, 60-67 (63.9); tail, 35.5-38.5 (37); culmen, 23-25 (24.2).[3]

Adult female. — Length (skins), 104-117 (112); wing, 58.5-63 (60.1); tail, 33.5-37 (35.1); culmen, 25-27 (25.9).[4]

Island of Porto Rico, Greater Antilles (El Ylúnque; Adjuntas; Utuado; Lares; Mayaguéz).

  1. ↑ Not only have Gould (Monog. Troch., ii) but also Elliot, Cory, Salvin (Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 100), and Hartert (Tierreich, Aves, Lief. 9, 100) described the adult female of this species as being pale gray beneath. Undoubtedly they are wrong, for all the specimens sexed as female in the U. S. National Museum (one of them with the determination of sex emphasized) are precisely like adult males in coloration, and even a young bird which had not yet left the nest (a male, however) is not appreciably different! Numerous specimens in the U. S. National Museum corresponding with the descriptions of the alleged female of A. viridis by the authors mentioned undoubtedly belong to A. aurulentus, the adult female of which has little if any chestnut or rufous on the rectrices.
  2. ↑ A nestling (determined to be a male by dissection) is in this plumage.
  3. ↑ Ten specimens.
  4. ↑ Four specimens.
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