Superb Parrot

SCI Name:  Polytelis swainsonii
Protonym:  Psittacus Swainsonii Dict.Sci.Nat. 39 p.39
Taxonomy:  Psittaciformes / Psittaculidae / Polytelis
Taxonomy Code:  suppar1
Type Locality:  New Holland = New South Wales, a-pud IMathews.
Author:  Desmarest
Publish Year:  1826
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

swainsoni / swainsonii
William Swainson (1789-1855) English naturalist, artist, collector (Buteo, syn. Campephaga flava, Catharus, Chlorostilbon, syn. Circus macrourus, syn. Coracina lineata, syn. Cossypha niveicapilla, syn. Criniger calurus verreauxi, syn. Doricha enicura, Gampsonyx, syn. Halcyon leucocephala pallidiventris, syn. Iduna caligata, Limnothlypis, syn. Mackenziaena severa, syn. Momotus momota bahamensis, Myiarchus (ex “Suirirí pardo amarillo menor” of de Azara 1802-1805, no. 193), syn. Myrmeciza longipes (ex Myrmothera longipes Swainson, 1825), subsp. Notharchus macrorhynchos, Onychorhynchus, syn. Pachyramphus marginatus, Passer, syn. Petrochelidon pyrrhonota, syn. Phigys solitarius, syn. Philohydor lictor, syn. Phylloscopus nitidus, Polytelis, Pternistis, syn. Ptilinopus regina, subsp. Ramphastos ambiguus, syn. Struthidea cinerea, syn. Tangara sayaca, syn. Thinocorus rumicivorus, syn. Trichoglossus moluccanus, syn. Turdoides jardineii, subsp. Vireo gilvus).