The Key to Scientific Names
- Erythrostomus
(Psittacidae; syn. Tanygnathus † Great-billed Parrot T. megalorhynchus) Gr. ερυθρος eruthros red; στομα stoma, στοματος stomatos mouth; "Upper mandible very distinctly toothed; lower mandible longer than it is high. Tail short, even or rounded. ERYTHROSTOMUS, Sw. Tail rather lengthened, graduated or rounded; the feathers broad. Wings moderate, resembling those of the next genus [Chrysotis]; but the tertials are not longer than the secondaries. Asia, America. macrorynchus. Le Vaill. pl. 85. cyanogaster. Part 5. No. 180." (Swainson 1837); "Erythrostomus Swainson, 1837, Nat. Hist. Classif. Birds, II, p. 300. Type, by subsequent designation (G. Gray, 1855, Cat. Genera Subgenera Birds Brit. Mus., p. 88), Psittacus macrorhynchos Gmelin, 1788 = Psittacus megalorhynchus Boddaert, 1783." (JAJ 2021).