- [Endoxa] mango Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 175.
- Trochilus porphyrurus Shaw, Nat. Misc, ix, no. 9, May, 1798, pl. 333 ("South America and neighboring islands"); Gen. Zool., viii, 1811, 296.
- [Anthracothorax. β. Floresia] porphyrurus Reichenbach, Aufz. der Colibr., 1854, 11.
- [Anthracothorax] porphyrurus Reichenbach, Troch. Enum., 1855, 8, pl. 795, figs. 4849, 4850.
- [Lampornis] porphyrurus Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 250. — Mulsant, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, xxii, 1876, 203.
- Lampornis porphyrurus Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. xv. May, 1858 (vol. v, 1861), pl. 81; Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 67. — Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 291. — Mulsant and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 24; Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., i. livr. 2, 1874, 163.
- Lampornis porphyrura Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 79. — Albrecht, Journ. für Orn., 1862, 201.
- L[ampornis] porphyrura Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 19.
- P[olytmus] porphyrurus Gray, Gen. Birds, i, Dec, 1848, 108.
- [Polytmus] porphyrurus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 126, no. 1589.
- E[ndoxa] porphyrura Heine, Journ. für Orn., 1863, 179.
- T[rochilus] floresii Bourcier and Mulsant, Ann. Sci. Phys. et Nat. d'Agric. Lyon, ix, 1846, 327 (Jamaica); Rev. Zool., 1846, 316.
- [Lampornis] floresi Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 72; Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 2-50.
ANTHRACOTHORAX NIGRICOLLIS NIGRICOLLIS (Vieillot).
BLACK-THROATED MANGO.
Adult male. — Above metallic bronze-green, darker and duller on pileum, more decidedly bronzy (sometimes pure golden or coppery bronze) on rump; middle pair of rectrices varying from dull greenish bronze to dusky, slightly glossed with bronze or greenish; remaining rectrices deep maroon-chestnut, glossed with metallic purple, and margined terminally with dark metallic greenish blue, or black glossed with bluish or greenish, this extending along edge of outer web of outermost rectrix for more than terminal half (sometimes nearly to base); remiges dusky brownish slate; chin, throat, and median portion of chest, breast, and abdomen plain velvety black, faintly glossed with bluish when viewed from behind; loral and rictal regions, and thence along each side of the black area of middle under parts as far as flanks, metallic greenish blue or bluish green next to the black, passing outwardly through pure green into yellowish green; under tail-coverts mixed metallic green and blackish; femoral and lumbar tufts white; bill dull black; iris brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 103-129 (113); wing, 61.5-70.5 (66.9); tail, 34-40.5 (37.2); culmen, 21.5-25.5 (23.5).[1]
Adult female. — Above similar to the adult male but lateral rectrices
with blackish terminal portion more extended, the tip (at least of
- ↑ Thirty-three specimens.
