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Red-eared Parakeet
The blood-eared parakeet (''Pyrrhura hoematotis''), also known as the red-eared parakeet and in aviculture as the red-eared conure, is a species of bird in subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is endemic to Venezuela. Taxonomy and systematics The blood-eared parakeet has two subspecies, the nominate ''P. h. hoematotis'' ( Souancé, 1857) and ''P. h. immarginata'' ( Zimmer & W.H. Phelps, 1944). Description The blood-eared parakeet is about long and weighs . The sexes are the same. Adults of the nominate subspecies are slaty gray from forehead to mid-crown, with bare white skin around the eye and bright terracotta ear coverts that give it its English name. Their nape feathers are green with yellow edges and the rest of their upperparts are green. Their throat, the sides of their neck, and their upper breast are yellow-green with grayish feather edges giving a scaly appearance. The rest of their underparts are green with some reddish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles De Souancé
Charles de Souancé (2 May 1823 – 23 January 1896) was a French people, French ornithologist and a purser in the French Navy, more precisely "Commissaire de la Marine". He made many studies on the Bird collections, ornithological collection of his uncle François Victor Massena, 3rd Duke of Rivoli, François Victor Masséna and described several new species of True parrots, parrots (Psittacidae) in the scientific journal ''Revue et Magazin de Zoologie''. A subspecies of the maroon-tailed parakeet, ''Pyrrhura melanura souancei'', is named for him. Published works * ''Description de quelques nouvelles espèces d'oiseaux de la famille des psittacidés'', with François Victor Masséna, 1854 – Description of some new species of birds within the family Psittacidae. * ''Iconographie des perroquets, non figurés dans les publications de Levaillant et de M. Bourjot Saint-Hilaire'', in collaboration with Charles Lucien Bonaparte and Émile Blanchard, Paris : P. Bertrand, 1857. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |