]8t) HARLEQUIN HUMMING-BIRD. 
drawing in the possession of General Davis, correspond- 
ing and evidently done from an individual of the same 
species, there will be no doubt of its existence. We 
give Dr Latham’s description in his own words. 
“ Length, four inches and a half; bill bent, one inch 
and a quarter in length, and brown ; crown of the 
head, chin, breast, and middle of the back, green; 
from the bill through the eyes, a fine blue stripe, pass- 
ing almost to the nape ; the lower part of this edged 
with black; upper parts of the body and wings, brown ; 
belly and vent, the colour of cinnebar, but not glossy, 
like the rest of the plumage ; tail even at the end, and 
brown ; legs, pale brown.” 
