Black-throated Mango

Caption on print: Mangrove Hummingbird

Dr. Strobel sent three male hummingbirds to John Bachman. He then forwarded them to Audubon with two female skins and Maria Martin's painting of a trumpet-creeper. Audubon made the final painting after July 1832.

The American Ornithological Union believes all the skins were of birds living in South America, and has not accepted Strobel's sighting as a North American record.

"The specimen which is now in my possession, was obtained by Dr. Strobel at Key West in East Florida. He informed me that he had succeeded in capturing it from a bush where he had found it seated, apparently wearied after its long flight across the Gulf of Mexico, probably from some of the West India Islands."

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