Burrowing Parakeet

SCI Name:  Cyanoliseus patagonus
Protonym:  Psittacus patagonus Nouv.Dict.Hist.Nat.(1817) (1817), 25 p.367
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittacidae / Cyanoliseus
Taxonomy Code:  burpar
Type Locality:  Buenos Aires.
Author:  Vieillot
Publish Year:  1818
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

CYANOLISEUS
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Burrowing Parrot C. patagonus) Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; ἁλυσις halusis  chain (cf. specific name Psittacus cyanolysios Molina, 1782 (= syn. Cyanoliseus patagonus)); alluding to the bluish-white collar of the Burrowing Parrot; "Subfam. I. MACROCERCINÆ.   ...   6. CYANOLISEUS, Bp.  —  28. Patagonus, Vieill." (Bonaparte 1854); "Cyanoliseus Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zool. (2), 6, 1854, p. 150. Type, by monotypy, Psittacus patagonus Vieillot." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 193).
Var. Cyanolyseos, Cyanolyseus.

patagonus
Spanish name “Maracana Patagon” given to the Burrowing Parakeet by de Azara 1805, because it migrated from Patagonia; "NÚM. CCLXXVII.  DEL PATAGON.  Nunca lo he visto en el Paraguay; pero he tenido quatro idénticos en Buenos Ayres. Me aseguran que extiende su domicilio desde le paralelo de 32 grados hasta la costa Patagónica." (de Azara 1805) (Cyanoliseus).

SUBSPECIES

Burrowing Parakeet (Olive)
SCI Name: Cyanoliseus patagonus andinus
andina / andinum / andinus / andium
Mod. L. Andinus Andean, of the Andes < Andium Andes.

Burrowing Parakeet (Burrowing)
SCI Name: Cyanoliseus patagonus patagonus/conlara
CYANOLISEUS
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Burrowing Parrot C. patagonus) Gr. κυανος kuanos  dark-blue; ἁλυσις halusis  chain (cf. specific name Psittacus cyanolysios Molina, 1782 (= syn. Cyanoliseus patagonus)); alluding to the bluish-white collar of the Burrowing Parrot; "Subfam. I. MACROCERCINÆ.   ...   6. CYANOLISEUS, Bp.  —  28. Patagonus, Vieill." (Bonaparte 1854); "Cyanoliseus Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zool. (2), 6, 1854, p. 150. Type, by monotypy, Psittacus patagonus Vieillot." (Peters, 1937, III, p. 193).
Var. Cyanolyseos, Cyanolyseus.

Burrowing Parakeet (Chilean)
SCI Name: Cyanoliseus patagonus bloxami
bloxami
Revd. Andrew Bloxam (1801-1878) English botanist, naturalist on HMS Blonde in the Pacific 1824-1826 (his brother Capt. Richard Rowland Bloxam (1798-1877) Royal Navy, commanded HMS Blonde) (syn. Anairetes parulus, subsp. Cyanoliseus patagonus, syn. Phytotoma rara).