Mango Humming-Bird

Mango Humming-Bird

Volume 3, Plate XX / Ornithology (Birds)

Mango Humming-Bird

Trochilus mango

A common and hardy species of the West India Islands, about four inches and a quarter long, with golden-green upper parts, flanks, and coverts, brilliant reflections on the crown, and a stripe of deep velvet-black from chin to vent shaded steel-blue on the sides. A narrow white band bars the flank above the thighs, the broad rounded tail showing golden-green centre feathers and violet or purple others, the young paler with pure white under parts.

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