Image: A monograph of the Capitonidæ, or scansorial barbets (19987694210)
Description: A monograph of the Capitonidæ, or scansorial barbets / "Megalaima versicolor" = Psilopogon rafflesii (Lesson, 1839) Wallace gave it the name Megalaima versicolor in 1855d. While in Malacca in 1854 Wallace related: ...soon obtained [were] the large green barbets (Megalaima versicolor) – fruit-eating birds, something like small toucans, with a short, straight bristly bill, and whose head and neck are variegated with patches of the most vivid blue and crimson. cf. The Annotated Malay Archipelago by Alfred Russel Wallace
Title: A monograph of the Capitonidæ, or scansorial barbets (19987694210)
Credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/19987694210
Author: Keulemans, John Gerard; Marshall, Charles Henry Tilson; Marshall, G. F. L.
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