Princess Parrot

SCI Name:  Polytelis alexandrae
Protonym:  Polyteles alexandrae Proc.Zool.Soc.London Pt2 p.232
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Polytelis
Taxonomy Code:  alepar1
Type Locality:  Howell''s Ponds, Central Australia.
Author:  Gould
Publish Year:  1863
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

POLYTELIS
(Psittacidae; Ϯ Superb Parrot P. swainsonii) Gr. πολυτελης polutelēs  exquisite  < πολυς polus  much; τελος telos  expense, celebration; "Genus II. Polytelis*) Wagl.  Prachtsittich.  Character generis praecedentis [Palaeornis]; pedes elevati, graciles, tarso tereti.   Genus Australiae proprium. Vitae ratio latet.   Species: 1. P. Barrabandi.   ...   *) Πολυτελης exquisitus.  Avis generis ob pedes altos et graciles genus sequens cum praecedente connectens." (Wagler 1832); "Polytelis Wagler, Abh. K. Bayer. Akad. Wiss., Math.-Phys. Kl., 1, 1832, p. 489. Type, by monotypy, P. barrabandi = Psittacus barrabandi Swainson, not of Kuhl = Psittacus swainsonii Desmarest." (Peters 1937, III, 246).
Var. Polyteles, Polyletes.
Synon. Barrabandius, Northipsitta, Sindelia, Spathopterus.

alexandrae
● Alexandra Station (= Alexandria), Northern Territory, Australia (subsp. Cisticola exilis, syn. Climacteris melanurus, syn. Petroica goodenovii, syn. Taeniopygia guttata castanotis, syn. Tyto delicatula).
● Annie Montague Alexander (1867-1950) US patron of zoology, field ornithologist, founder of Mus. of Vertebrate Zoology, Berkeley (subsp. Lagopus lagopus, subsp. Sitta carolinensis).
● Princess Alexandra Caroline Mary Charlotte Louisa Julia (1844-1925), eldest daughter of Christian IX King of Denmark and wife to Edward Prince of Wales (married 1863) (Polytelis).