Brown-throated Parakeet

The brown-throated parakeet (Eupsittula pertinax), also known as the St. Thomas conure or brown-throated conure in aviculture, is a species of bird in the subfamily Arinae of the family Psittacidae, the African and New World parrots. It is found in Costa Rica, Panama, the northern mainland of South America, and islands off the South American coast. == Taxonomy and systematics == The brown-throated parakeet was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. He placed it with all the other parrots in the genus Psittacus and coined the binomial name Psittacus pertinax. The brown-throated parakeet is now one of five species placed in the genus Eupsittula that was introduced in 1853 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek eu meaning "good" with the Modern Latin psittula meaning "little parrot". The specific epithet pertinax is Latin meaning "tenacious" or "persistent". These 14 subspecies are recognized; some of them are island endemics: E. p. aeruginosa (Linnaeus, 1758) E. p. arubensis (Hartert, E., 1892) E. p. chrysogenys (Massena & Souancé, 1854) E. p. chrysophrys (Swainson, 1838) E. p. griseipecta (Meyer de Schauensee, 1950) E. p. lehmanni…