Birds from Sumatra given by Sir Stamford Raffles to Lord Stanley: links to names, types and drawings
Author
Wilson, John-James
text
Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club
2021
2021-03-09
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2140. Red-crowned Barbet
Psilopogon rafflesii
(
Lesson, 1839
)
Listed as
Bucco versicolor
ȱ byȱ Rafflesȱ(1822),ȱ aȱ nameȱ alsoȱ usedȱ forȱ anȱ unsexedȱ specimenȱ byȱ Stanley in 1825. However, this name was already in use for a South American species, Versicoloured Barbet (now
Eubucco versicolor
Statius Muller, 1776
). Stanley later annotated his manuscript with ‘
Barbu bigarrè
ȱ Pl.ȱ Col.ȱ 309’,ȱ referringȱ toȱ Vigors’ȱ catalogueȱ (Rafflesȱ 1830). Subsequently, while cataloguing the collection of Abeillé,
Lesson (1839)
named the Sumatran species eponymously as ‘
Bucco Rafflesii
’. Lack of a traceable specimen in
NML
, or a number in Moore’s stock books, suggests it was not part of the 1851 bequest.