The Key to Scientific Names

Edited by James A. Jobling
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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).


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