Brown-necked Parrot

SCI Name:  Poicephalus fuscicollis
Protonym:  Psittacus fuscicollis NovaActaAcad.Caes.Leop.Carol. 10 p.93
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittacidae / Poicephalus
Taxonomy Code:  brnpar1
Type Locality:  No locality = Gambia.
Author:  Kuhl
Publish Year:  1820
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

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, 224).
Var. Paeocephalus, Phaeocephalus, Piocephalus, Poeocephalus (Gr. ποια poia grass), Poiecephalus, Poiocephalus (Gr. πολιος polios  grey).
Synon. Eupsittacus, Micropsittacus, Notopsittacus.

poicephalus
Gr. φαιος phaios  grey, dusky; -κεφαλος -kephalos  -headed  < κεφαλη kephalē  head.

fuscicollis
L. fuscus dusky, brown; Mod. L. -collis -necked, -throated < L. collum neck.
● ex “Garza cuello pardo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 359 (syn. Butorides striata ☼).
● ex “Chorlito pestorejo pardo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 404 (Calidris).
● ex “Brown-necked Shag” of Latham, 1824 (Stictocarbo).
● ex “Fauvette de Cayenne à gorge brune et ventre jaune” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Yellow-bellied Warbler” of Latham 1783 (unident.).

SUBSPECIES

Brown-necked Parrot (Brown-necked)
SCI Name: Poicephalus fuscicollis fuscicollis
fuscicollis
L. fuscus dusky, brown; Mod. L. -collis -necked, -throated < L. collum neck.
● ex “Garza cuello pardo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 359 (syn. Butorides striata ☼).
● ex “Chorlito pestorejo pardo” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 404 (Calidris).
● ex “Brown-necked Shag” of Latham, 1824 (Stictocarbo).
● ex “Fauvette de Cayenne à gorge brune et ventre jaune” of de Buffon 1770-1783, and “Yellow-bellied Warbler” of Latham 1783 (unident.).

Brown-necked Parrot (Gray-headed)
SCI Name: Poicephalus fuscicollis suahelicus
suahelensis / suahelica / suahelicum / suahelicus / suahelicuus
Swahili, originally a name given to the peoples of Zanzibar and the adjacent mainland coast  < Arabic sawāhil  coasts.