swift parrot (Lathamus discolor)

Query: lorikeet

Result: 176^th of 195

Subject:	swift parrot (Lathamus discolor)
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Trichoglossus discolor
Date 1796-1808
Artist Jacques Barraband (1767–1809)
Source/Photographer Levaillant, Histoire naturelle des oiseaux d'Afrique, pl. 50
Old Latin name Trichoglossus discolor
New Latin name Lathamus discolor
Common name Nederlands: Zwaluwpapegaai
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trichoglossus_discolor_-_1796-1808_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ18500229.tif

The swift parrot (Lathamus discolor) is a parrot species in the family Psittaculidae. It breeds in Tasmania and migrates north to south eastern Australia from Griffith-Warialda in New South Wales and west to Adelaide in the winter. Lathamus discolor is related to the rosellas, with the feeding habits of a lorikeet. It is the only member in the genus Lathamus.

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