LAMPORNIS MANGO.
The Mango. |

Trochilus Mango, Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 191.—Ib. Gmel. Edit., tom. i. p- 491.—Shaw,
Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 294.—Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 307.—Less. Hist. Nat. des
Col., p. 58. pls. 13, 13 bis, 14.—Vieill. Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., tom. vii. p. 353.
—Ib. Ency. Méth. Orn., part u. p. 957.—Drap. Dict. Class. d’Hist. Nat., tom. iv.
p- 319.—Dumont, Dict. Sci. Nat., tom. x. p- 90.—Jard. Nat. Lib. Humming Birds,
vol. il. p. 100. pl. 20.—Swains. Birds of Brazil, pls. 27, 28.—Pr. Max. Beitr. zur
Naturg. von Bras., B. iv. Div. i. p. 47.—Aud. Birds of Am., vol. ii. pl. cuxxiv.—
Ib. Orn. Bio., vol. ii. p. 480.—Ib. Syn. Birds of Amer., p- 170.

Le Plastron noir, Buff. Hist. Nat. des Ois., tom. vi. p- 099.—Vieill. Ois. dor., tom. i. pico. plc

Le Cohbri du Mexique, Buff. Pl. Enl. 680. figs. 2, 3.

Trochilus violicauda, Bodd.

= _ albus, Gmel. Edit. Lann. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p: 488.

—_—_—. mitidus, Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p- 805.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p- 301.

Le Colibri a queue violette, Buff. Hist. Nat. des Ois., vol. vi. p- 55.—Ib. Pl. Enl. 671. fig. 2.—
Vieill. Ois. dor., tom. i. pace raphy ll.

Trochilus punctulatus, Gmel. Edit. Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p- 488.—Vieill. Eney. Méth. Orn.,
vol. u. p. 652 ?—Lath. Ind. Orn., vol. i. p. 306.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii.
p. 303.

Le Bee-fleurs a bande noir le long du corps, Azara, Voy. dans l’Amér. Mér., Sonn. Edit., vol. iv.

 

p- 89. no. ccxcv.

Le Bee-fleurs bleu en dessous, Ib., p. 91. no. cexcvt.

Le Bee-flewrs peint, tb., p- 92. no. cexeviit.

Polytmus punctulatus, Briss. Orn., tom. iii. p- 669.

Trochilus atricapillus, Vieill. 2nde Edit. du Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., tom. vii. p- 354.—Ib.
Ency. Méth. Orn., part i. p. 553.

—— fasciatus, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p- 803.

——— quadricolor, Vieill. Eney. Méth. Orn., part un. p. 573.

Le Cohbri a ventre piqueté, Vieill. Ois. dor., tom. i. p. 21. pl. 8.

Trochilus nigricollis, Vieill. 2nde Edit. du Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. Nat., tom. vii. p. 349 ?—Ib. Ency.
Méth. Orn., pp. 2, 553 ?

Lampornis mango, Swains. Zool. Journ., vol. iii. p- 358.—Ib. Class. of Birds, vol. ii. p- 330.—
Bonap. Consp. Gen. Av., p. 71, Lampornis, sp. 1.—Ib. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854,
p- 250.

Polytmus mango, Gray and Mitch. Gen. of Birds, vol. i. p- 107, Polytmus, sp. 10.

Mango Humming Bird, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. ii. p. 758.—Ib. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 310.—Shaw,
Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 294.

Violet-tailed Humming Bird, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. ii. p. 754.—Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii.
p- 301.—Lath. Gen. Hist., vol. iv. p. 303.

Anthracothorax Mango, Reichenb. Autz. der Colibris, p.11.—Ib.Troch. enumer., p.8. pl.pcccxx.
figs. 4839-4841.

Purple-tailed Humming Bird, Shaw, Gen. Zool., vol. viii. p. 296.—Ib. Nat. Misc., pl. 333.

Spotted-necked Humming Bird, Lath. Gen. Syn., vol. i. p. 755.

 

Tus familiar species of Humming Bird was not only known to Linnzeus, but to Ray, Willoughby,
Marcgrave, and most of the older authors, and is in fact one of those with which Europeans first became
acquainted ; nevertheless, much confusion exists with regard to its synonymy, which I believe is ee
owing to a nearly allied species, the Lampornis porphyrurus of Jamaica, having been confounded with it.
This bird then it must be understood never goes to Jamaica, and to but few of the West India Islands ; on
the mainland, however, it enjoys a more extensive range than any other species. Audubon has included a