""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"
""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"
Planche N°52 dessinée par Edouard Traviés provenant du livre "Le règne animal distribué d'après son organisation" par Georges Cuvier (Tome 4), seconde édition de 1828, représentant : -en haut : Barbu bigarré (Meglaima rafflesii) -en bas : Tamatia à gorge rousse (Hypnelus ruficollis)
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