greater wing-coverts dusky bronze or very dark bronze-greenish; remiges dull brownish slate or dusky, the secondaries usually faintly glossed with bronze-greenish; under parts plain velvety black, glossed with bluish green when viewed from behind, the under tail- coverts more strongly glossed with greenish; loral, rictal, and auricular regions and sides of neck bright metallic purple or reddish purple (aster purple to violet); femoral and lumbar tufts white; bill dull black; iris brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 117-130 (126); wing, 69-77 (73.5); tail, 38.5-44.5 (41.6); culmen, 25-30 (26.8).[1]
Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but coloration decidedly duller (especially the black of under parts), tail less brilliant, and rectrices margined terminally (more or less distinctly) with pale grayish or dull whitish; length (skins), 123-136 (127); wing, 69.5-75 (71.2); tail, 40.5-43.5 (41.7); culmen, 26-29 (27.6).[1]
Immature? — Similar to adults, as described above, but chin and throat dull metallic bluish green (viewed from in front), middle rec- trices more blackish (less metallic), and outer two or three rectrices (on each side) tipped, more or less, with whitish.[2]
Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles (Metcalfe Parish; Hope Gardens; Port Antonio; Port Henderson; Kingston; Spanishtown; Priestmans River; Moneague).
- [Trochilus] mango Linnæus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, i, 1758, 128 (based on Mellivora mango Albin, Av., iii, 45, pl. 49, fig. 1); ed. 12, i, 1766, 191 (cites Mellivora avis maxima Sloane, Nat. Hist. Jam., ii, 305, pl. 264, fig. 3). — Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. i, 1788, 491. — Latham, Index Orn., i, 1790, 307.
- Trochilus mango Lesson, Index Gen. et Synop. Troch., 1832, p. x, part (Jamaica).
- Lampornis mango Gosse, Birds Jam., 1847, 88; Illustr. Birds Jam., 1849, pl. 18. — March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 284. — Elliot, Ibis, 1872, 350 (crit.); Classif. and Synop. Troch., 1879, 39. — Mulsant and Verreaux, Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., iv, livr. 2, 1877, 155 (crit.). — Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 311. — Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 349; Birds West Ind., 1889, 144; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12, 106, 130. — Salvin, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 91. — Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 277. — Field, Auk, xi, 1894, 125 (Port Henderson). — Boucard, Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 327. — Lodge, Ibis, 1896, 497 (habits).
- [Lampornis] mango Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 81. — Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 17. — Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 118.
- L[ampornis] mango Newton, Handb. Jam., 1881, 108. — Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1900, 97.
