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A monograph of the Capitonidæ, or scansorial barbets (19987694210)

Image of Red-crowned Barbet

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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

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Keulemans, John Gerard; Marshall, Charles Henry Tilson; Marshall, G. F. L.
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