- Lampornis veraguensis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1856, 140 (David, Panama); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 291. — Gould, Mon. Troch., pt. xv, May, 1858 (vol. ii, 1861), pl. 76 (Volcan de Chiriquí, Panamá); Introd. Troch., oct. ed., 1861, 65.— Mulsant and Verreaux, Classif. Troch., 1866, 24; Hist. Nat. Ois.-Mouch., i, livr. 2, 1874, 146; iv, livr. 2, 1877, 153. — Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., viii, 1867, 177 (Davíd); ix, 1868, 121 (Costa Rica; error?). — Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 153 (Davíd); 1870, 207 (Cordillera del Chucu and Calobre); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 99. — Frantzius, Journ. für Orn., 1869, 315 (Costa Rica; error?). — Elliot, Classif. Troch., 1879, 40. — Zeledón, Cat. Aves de Costa Rica, 1882, 20; Anal. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, i, 1887, 121. — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1892, 280 (Agua Dulce, etc., Panamá). — Boucard, The Hum. Bird, ii, 1892, 85; Gen. Hum. Birds, 1895, 333 (Colón, etc.).
- L[ampornis] veraguensis Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 18. — Ridgway, Rep. U. S. Nat. Mus. for 1890 (1891), 377 (diagnosis, etc.).— Hartert, Das Tierreich, Troch., 1890, 99 (monogr.).
- [Polytmus] veraguensis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 125, no. 1578.
ANTHRACOTHORAX DOMINICUS (Linnæus).
HAITIAN MANGO.
Adult male. — Above dark, rather dull, metallic bronze-green, sometimes intermixed with metallic grass green; middle pair of rectrices dull metallic bronze, coppery bronze or violaceous-black;[1] remaining rectrices broadly margined terminally with violaceous-black, this extending along the edge of each web for (approximately) the terminal half, on the outer web of lateral rectrix to or near base; remiges dusky brownish slate or dull violaceous-black; chin and throat metallic bronze, or brassy bronze, usually passing laterally and posteriorly into a more greenish hue, or uniform greenish bronze or bronze-green; chest, breast, and abdomen — sometimes entire under parts of body — opaque velvety black, sometimes duller or more sooty on lower abdomen; sides and flanks sometimes (narrowly) dark metalhc green or bronze-green; under tail-coverts dusky or dark sooty basally, darker and faintly glossed with bronze or greenish terminally, sometimes wholly violaceous black; femoral and lumbar tufts white; bill dull black; iris brown; feet dusky; length (skins), 115-124 (119); wing, 65.5-70.5 (67.9); tail, 40-46 (42.9); culmen, 23-25 (23.8).[2]
Adult female. — Above rather bright bronze-green or greenish bronze; middle pair of rectrices rather dull dusky greenish bronze or bronze-green; other rectrices with basal half or more chestnut- rufous, glossed with purple, the remainder (approximately the terminal third) first black, then white, the latter in form of a terminal
spot, largest on outermost rectrix; remiges dusky brownish slate;