Psilopogon rafflesii ( Lesson, 1839 )

Wilson, John-James, 2021, Birds from Sumatra given by Sir Stamford Raffles to Lord Stanley: links to names, types and drawings, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 141 (1), pp. 39-49 : 42

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.