long-tailed parroquet

English

Noun

long-tailed parroquet (plural long-tailed parroquets)

  1. (obsolete) Synonym of long-tailed parakeet
    • 1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume I, London: Macmillan and Co., page 193:
      I stayed there a few days, but found that almost all the ground in the vicinity not underwater was cultivated, and that the only forest was in swamps which were now inaccessible. The only bird new to me which I obtained at Lorok was the fine long-tailed parroquet (Palaeornis longicauda).
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