Blue-throated bee-eater, Merops viridis viridis (Sumatra bee-eater, Merops sumatranus). Handcoloured engraving after an illustration by H. Kearsley of a specimen in the Zoological Society Museum from Edward Griffith's The Animal Kingdom by the Baron Cuvier, London, Whittaker, 1828.

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