The Key to Scientific Names
- poicephalus
Gr. φαιος phaios grey, dusky; -κεφαλος -kephalos -headed < κεφαλη kephalē head.
- POICEPHALUS
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Senegal Parrot P. senegalus) Gr. φαιος phaios grey, dusky; -κεφαλος -kephalos -headed < κεφαλη kephalē head; "POICEPHALUS, Sw. Wings very long, reaching to the end of the tail; the first quill scarcely shorter than the second; the inner web of the first three primaries suddenly narrowed beyond the middle, and then obliquely truncated at the tip. Tail very short, even; the feathers broad, truncate, but the shafts prolonged into mucronate points. Tropics of the Old World only; representing Palæornis. Senegalensis. Le Vail. pl. 116. Geoffroyi. Ib. 112. melanocephalus. Ib. 133. pileatus. Ib. 133. Barrabandi. Ib. 134. aureus. Le Vaill. pl. 138. Swinderianus. Lear. Psitt. pl. 42. torquata. Ib. 40. taranta. Ib. 39." (Swainson 1837); "Poicephalus Swainson, Classif. Bds., 2, 1837, p. 301. Type, by subsequent designation, P. senegalensis (L.) Swainson = Psittacus senegalus Linné (G. R. Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 52)." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 224).
Var. Paeocephalus, Phaeocephalus, Piocephalus, Poeocephalus (Gr. ποια poia grass), Poiecephalus, Poiocephalus (Gr. πολιος polios grey).
Synon. Eupsittacus, Micropsittacus, Notopsittacus, Pionus.
