The colonial has successfully colonized his green breast of America.
The crown and nape are a green-bronze with bright green breast, back, rump and upper tail-coverts.
Similar to nominate ruficauda, but has paler underparts, especially in the female; green breast band narrower; and bill longer.
On the final page of "The Great Gatsby," he thought — or allowed Nick Carraway to think — of Dutch sailors sighting America, "a fresh, green breast of a new world".
"And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes – a fresh, green breast of the new world.
He knows, as some of us had forgotten, that the last page of that novel contains not just a green breast and a blue lawn but an old island that flowered once "for Dutch sailors' eyes".
Sanderson quotes "The Great Gatsby": "Gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world".
But I know I will always be captivated by the green breast of the New World as imagined by Scott Fitzgerald, the old island that once flowered for the eyes of Dutch sailors.
And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes — a fresh, green breast of the new world.
Lesser Violetear otherwise is mostly glittering green; most populations have a purely green breast, lacking the bright blue breast patch of Mexican Violetear, but reportedly some specimens of Lesser, from the northern part of the range, in Costa Rica, also may have some blue on the underparts.
