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HARLEQUIN HUMMING-BIRD. 
Trochilus multicolor. — Latham. 
Peate XXXI. 
Harlequin Humming-bird, Trocliilus multicolor, Latham's Gene- 
ral History of Birds , veil. 5 t. p. 316 L’Arlcquin, Vieillot, 
Oiseaux Doris , pi. bus Lesson, Histoire Naturelle des 
Oiseaux-mouches, pi. lxxii. 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 
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