1) Merops Bicolor [Rufous-crowned Bee-eater]; 2) Merops Sumatranus [Blue-throated Bee-eater]

Description

original hand-colour lithograph.

RARE from “A List of the Birds known to inhabit the Philippine Archipelago”. As Transactions of the Zoological Society. Later re-issued as “The Ornithological Works”, by his widow, together with other essays.