The Key to Scientific Names
- LORICULUS
(Psittaculidae; † Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot L. galgulus) Dim. < genus Lorius auct. (= Larius Boddaert, 1783 = Eclectus Wagler, 1832), parrot (cf. dim. < genus Lorius Vigors, 1825, lory; dim. L. lorica breastplate; "uropygio pectoreque coccineis" (Linnaeus 1758)); "No. 1820. LORICULUS ASIATICUS; Psittacus asiaticus, Latham, and Ps. indicus, Gmelin,—both founded on Edwards, pl. 6, which is a good representation. The names, however, are bad, as the race would seem to be wholly confined to Ceylon: while L. vernalis inhabits all India, and the countries bordering the eastern shores of the Bay of Bengal, as far as the Tenasserim provinces where it abounds, and also Java; whereas in the Malayan peninsula there appears only to be L. galgulus. L. asiaticus differs from L. vernalis in having the crown deep red, passing to a saffron hue on the nape, and in some specimens over much of the back; while the fore-part of the neck is tinged more or less deeply with verditer. The nearest affinity of these Loricules is with the genus Eclectus; and there are other species in the Philippines and probably the south of China." (Blyth, 1849, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, XVIII (II), p. 801); "Genus. LORICULUS, Blyth. 12. L. GALGULUS (Edwards, pl. 293, f. 2). ... Serindak, Sindada, Malacca; Serindit, Sumatra (Raffles) ... 13. L. VERNALIS (Swainson's Zool. Ill., 2d series, pl. I). ... Latkan ('pendent'), Hind., Bengal; Bhorá or Bhoárá, S. India (Jerdon); Kyai-tha-da, Arakan (Phayre); Silindit, and Silinditum, Java (Horsfield) ... 14. L. ASIATICUS (Edwards, pl. 6) ... Pol-Girawa, Cingh." (Blyth, 1850, Journ. Asiatic Soc. Bengal, XIX, p. 236); "Loriculus Blyth, Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 19, 1850, p. 236. Type, by monotypy, Psittacus galgulus Linné." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 256); "LORICULUS Blyth, 1849 M— Psittacus galgulus Linnaeus, 1758; type by subsequent designation (G. R. Gray, 1855, Cat. of the Genera and Subgenera of Birds, p. 88)." (Dickinson and Remsen (eds.), H. & M. Complete Checklist, 4th ed., 2013, 1 (Non-passerines), p. 384). Waterhouse, 1889, Index Generum Avium, p. 122, also lists, “Loriculus, Blyth, Cat. B. Mus. Asiatic Soc. p. 9 (1849),” but Dickinson, et al., 2011, Priority! The Dating of Scientific Names in Ornithology, pp. 74-75, show that Blyth’s Catalogue was published no earlier than 1852.
Synon. Coryllis, Licmetulus, Psittaculus.
