Harlequin hummingbird, Trochilus multicolor. In 1833, William Jardine wrote that "this curious and singularly marked species was figured and described by Dr. Latham from a specimen in the British Museum." The same specimen was depicted by Nodder, and was copied by Vieillot, Lesson and Jardine, but Jardine says "it has been hinted that the specimen in the British Museum was made up from the feathers of different birds." Illustration signed N (Frederick Nodder).. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany" 1791.. Frederick Polydore Nodder (1751~1801) was a gifted natural history artist and engraver. Nodder honed his draftsmanship working on Captain Cook and Joseph Banks' Florilegium and engraving Sydney Parkinson's sketches of Australian plants. He was made "botanic painter to her majesty" Queen Charlotte in 1785. Nodder also drew the botanical studies in Thomas Martyn's Flora Rustica (1792) and 38 Plates (1799). Most of the 1,