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Brown-headed Parrot

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Chordata
Class:Aves
Order:Psittaciformes
Family:Psittacidae
Tribe:Psittacini
Genus:Poicephalus
Species:P. cryptoxanthus
Binomial name
Poicephalus cryptoxanthus
(Peters, 1854)
The Brown-headed Parrot (Poicephalus cryptoxanthus) is a mostly green African parrot with a greyish-brown head and yellow under its wings. The adult birds have yellow eyes and juvenile birds have brown eyes.

The yellow under its wings explains its name cryptoxanthus, which means "hidden yellow"; from Greek xanthos or ξανθος means "yellow", and "crypto", from the Greek kryptos, is an English prefix that means "hidden" or "secret".

Subspecies

Up to three subspecies are sometimes recognised:
  • Poicephalus c. cryptoxanthus — e South Africa to s Mozambique
  • Poicephalus c. tanganyikae — Mozambique to Kenya
  • Poicephalus c. zanzibaricus — Zanzibar and Pemba islands
The differences are however slight and White (1965) considers the species monotypic.

References

  • Guide to the Senegal Parrot and its family. By M.S. Allan & D. Deter. Barron's. ISBN 0-7641-0332-6
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Chordata
Bateson, 1885

Typical Classes

See below

Chordates (phylum Chordata) are a group of animals that includes the vertebrates, together with several closely related invertebrates.
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Aves
Linnaeus, 1758

Orders

About two dozen - see section below

Birds (class Aves) are bipedal, warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrate animals.
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Psittaciformes
Wagler, 1830

Systematics

(but see below)

Family Cacatuidae (cockatoos)
  • Subfamily Microglossinae (Palm Cockatoo)
  • Subfamily Calyptorhynchinae (dark cockatoos)
  • Subfamily Cacatuinae (white cockatoos)

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Psittacidae
Illiger, 1811

Subfamily
Loriinae (lories and lorikeets)
Psittacinae (typical parrots and allies)

The true parrots are about 330 species of bird belonging to the Psittacidae
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Psittacini

Genera

Coracopsis
Psittacus
Poicephalus
Agapornis

Tribus Psittacini consists of Afrotropical parrots; there are 22 species in 4 genera.
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Poicephalus
Swainson, 1837

The genus Poicephalus comprises 10 species of parrots native to various regions of Sub-Saharan Africa, ranging from Senegal in the west, Ethiopia in the east, and to Cape Horn in the south.
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binomial nomenclature is the formal system of naming species. The system is also called binominal nomenclature (particularly in zoological circles), binary nomenclature (particularly in botanical circles), or the binomial classification system.
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Wilhelm Karl Hartwich Peters (April 22, 1815 in Coldenbüttel - April 20, 1883) was a German naturalist and explorer.

He was assistant to Johannes Peter Müller and later curator of the Berlin Zoological Museum. In September 1842 he travelled to Mozambique via Angola.
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Psittaciformes
Wagler, 1830

Systematics

(but see below)

Family Cacatuidae (cockatoos)
  • Subfamily Microglossinae (Palm Cockatoo)
  • Subfamily Calyptorhynchinae (dark cockatoos)
  • Subfamily Cacatuinae (white cockatoos)

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