Megalaima versicolor - 1700-1880 - Print - Iconographia Zoologica - Special Collections University of Amsterdam - UBA01 IZ18800032

Description:

""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"