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HARLEQUIN HUMMING-BIRD. 



Trochilus multicolor. LATHAM. 



PLATE XXXI. 



Harlecuiin Humming-bird, Trochilus multicolor, Latharrft Gene- 

 ral History of Birds, vol. IT, p. 316 L'Arlequin, Vieillot* 

 Oiseaux Doris, pi. Ixix. Lesson, Histoire Naturelle det 

 Oiseaux-mouches, pi. Ixxii. p. 201. 



THIS curious and singularly marked species was 

 figured and described by Dr Latham, from a specimen 

 in the British Museum, and a representation of it also 

 existed among the drawings of General Davis, and rests 

 on these authorities. It was copied from Latham into 

 the Oiseaux Dores of Vieillot, again by Lesson in his 

 Monograph, and we have ventured a third time to 

 introduce it, with the view of attracting the attention 

 of British naturalists, for it has been hinted that the 

 specimen in the British Museum was a specimen made 

 up from the feathers of different birds. Dr Latham, 

 after the publication of his figure, was aware of this ; 

 and in a notice to his second edition, expressly says, 

 " by every attention paid to it, I cannot detect it." 

 If there is a specimen in the British Museum, and a 



