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The long-tailed parakeet was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. [2] The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. [3]
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Psittacula, also known as Afro-Asian ring-necked parrots, is a genus of parrots from Africa and Southeast Asia.It is a widespread group with a clear concentration of species in south Asia, but also with representatives in Africa and the islands of the Indian Ocean.
Blossom-headed parakeet, Psittacula roseata; Blue-winged parakeet, Psittacula columboides; Layard's parakeet, Psittacula calthrapae; Lord Derby's parakeet, Psittacula derbiana; Red-breasted parakeet, Psittacula alexandri; Nicobar parakeet, Psittacula caniceps; Long-tailed parakeet, Psittacula longicauda † Mascarene grey parakeet, Psittacula ...
Total length c. 22 centimetres (8.7 in). As other members of the Pyrrhura picta complex, it is a long-tailed mainly green parakeet with a dark red belly, rump and tail-tip (tail all dark red from below), pale grey scaling to the chest, a whitish or dull buff patch on the auriculars and bluish remiges.
Fiery-shouldered parakeet: P. egregia (Sclater, 1881) LC: Venezuela west of the Rio Caroni, and Guyana east of the Mazaruni River: Santa Marta parakeet: P. viridicata Todd, 1913: e EN: Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta: Maroon-tailed parakeet: P. melanura (Spix, 1824) LC: Northwest South America, east of the Andes Mountains: El Oro parakeet: P. orcesi
Plum-headed parakeet, Psittacula cyanocephala; Blossom-headed parakeet, Psittacula roseata; Blue-winged parakeet, Psittacula columboides; Layard's parakeet, Psittacula calthropae; Lord Derby's parakeet, Psittacula derbiana; Red-breasted parakeet, Psittacula alexandri; Nicobar parakeet, Psittacula caniceps; Long-tailed parakeet, Psittacula ...
First described by French naturalist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1826, the superb parrot is one of three species in the genus Polytelis of long-tailed parrots. [4] Common names include superb parrot and, in avicultural circles, Barraband's parrot or parakeet, named after the artist Jacques Barraband who illustrated it for Francois Le Vaillant in 1801 [5] or green leek (although the last is ...