Rodrigues parrot
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The Rodrigues parrot or Leguat's parrot is an extinct species of parrot that was endemic to the Mascarene island of Rodrigues. The species is known from subfossil bones and from mentions in contempora
Necropsittacus
Holotype upper beak, 1867
Assigned beak, 1873
Life restoration of two Rodrigues parrots
Broad-billed parrot
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The broad-billed parrot or raven parrot is a large extinct parrot in the family Psittaculidae. It was endemic to the Mascarene island of Mauritius. The species was first referred to as the "Indian rav
Rodrigues parrot
…related, but it is classified as a member of the tribe Psittaculini, along with other Mascarene parrots. The Rodrigues parrot bore similarities to the broad-billed parrot of Mauritius, and may have been related. Two additional species have been assigned to its genus (N. francicus and N. borbonicus), based on descriptions…
Gelderland 1601 1603 Lophopsittacus mauritianus
Woodcut from 1601, with the first published depiction of a broad-billed parrot (5, perched in a tree above).
Lithograph of the now lost subfossil holotype mandible, 1866
Life restoration by Julian P. Hume, with colouration based on contemporary accounts