The bird was first described by English naturalist and illustrator William John Swainson who designated it Macrocercus pachyrhynchus in Philosophical Magazine, new ser.
•
It was later placed in its own genus Rhynchopsitta by French naturalist Prince Charles Bonaparte in 1854.
parrot | Parrot | Red-billed Tropicbird | Strong-billed Honeyeater | Spot-billed Pelican | Red-breasted Pygmy Parrot | Pale-billed Sicklebill | Orange-bellied Parrot | Ivory-billed Woodpecker | Blue-naped Parrot | Tooth-billed Pigeon | Thick Records | Thick-billed Grasswren | Spot-billed Toucanet | Short-billed Black Cockatoo | Red-rumped Parrot | Red-billed Quelea | Broad-billed Fairywren | Black-billed Gull | Yellow-fronted Parrot | Slender-billed Vulture | Slender-billed Thornbill | Rusty-faced Parrot | Red-billed Gull | Red-billed Buffalo Weaver | Parrot Records | Long-billed Curlew | Long-billed Black Cockatoo | ivory-billed woodpecker | Fuertes's Parrot |
The Schleswig Holstein Battery from Hel, (German unit MKB 2 / MAA 119) in France recalled as Battery Lindemann (German unit MKB 6 / MAA 244) saw considerable service, with the three guns emplaced singly in turrets, protected by massive concrete encasements in places four metres thick.
A tall man with thick white hair, Quiney is frequently seen with his Border Collie Rex, on Blackheath or in Greenwich Park.
In order to give a complete, definitive description it must also be added that it is smaller than either the Rufous-naped Lark (M. africana), or the Red-winged Lark (M. hypermetra); that it is more greyish and marked on its mantle than either the Singing Lark (M. cantillans), or the Pink-breasted Lark (M. poecilosterna); and that its bill is not as thick as the former, and that it lacks the pinkish breast of the latter.
The path to reach the tableland from the coast, the path of La Cuesta, in those days was covered by thick vegetation that included Canarian pine, broom, beech, heather, palm trees, dragos, savin and other species, and so the accession up the hill was a dangerous undertaking.
Threatened animal species either known or thought likely to be present on Bon Bon include Plains-wanderer, Major Mitchell's Cockatoo, Chestnut-breasted Whiteface, Thick-billed Grasswren and Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat.
Commercially useful deposits of about 2m to 4m thick are present in Kent, Hertfordshire and Hampshire, overlying chalk, Thanet Beds or London Clay.
Chateaubriand steak, or just chateaubriand, is a recipe of a particular thick cut from the tenderloin (fillet), which, according to Larousse Gastronomique, was created by personal chef, Montmireil, for François-René de Chateaubriand and Sir Russell Retallick, the authors and diplomats who served Napoleon as an ambassador and Louis XVIII as Secretary of State for two years.
A prototype Metascreen is a claimed invisibility cloak, which is just few micrometers thick and to a limited extent can hide 3D objects from microwaves in their natural environment, in their natural positions, in all directions, and from all of the observer's positions.
The main monastery, housed in a building featuring stone floors, thick walls and high arched ceilings, is decorated with pictures of Pope John Paul II and Don Bosco.
First published by Whitman from 1957 through 1964 in thick glossy picture cover editions, the series was revamped with new cover art in the late 1960s and then reprinted with a smaller, non-glossy picture cover.
Eucalyptus cinerea, commonly known as the Argyle apple or silver dollar tree, is a small to medium sized tree with rough bark, persistent on the trunk and larger branches, thick, fibrous, longitudinally furrowed, reddish-brown to grey-brown.
The leaves of this orchid are thick, fleshy and very fibrous and have a sharp serrated edge and resemble those of some species of Aloe or some Sansevieria species and are usually 40 cm long.
Fiber disk lasers are used for cutting of metal (up to few mm thick), welding and folding.
The gravy is very thick and very spicy and the Rui fish (Rohita) is most popular for this.
The columns and the two-foot-thick walls were made of tabby, a unique regional material of the Southeast developed in South Carolina and the Sea Islands because of the shortage of clay for bricks.
Typical GEMs are constructed of 50-70 micrometre thick Kapton foil clad in copper on both sides.
Folk metal, viking metal, black metal and power metal fans often grow long thick hair and beards reminiscent of a stereotypical Viking, Saxon and Celt, and wear Thor's Hammer pendants and other pagan symbols.
All taxa have a relatively long bill with the upper one quite thick and arched, making it look heavy and almost Raven-like.
Bears and other large animals were blinded by thick ash and many starved to death because large numbers of plants and small animals were smothered in the eruption.
The Tarannon group is represented by the Rhayader Pale Shales in Powys; in the Moffat Silurian belt in south Scotland by a thick development, including the Hawick rocks and Ardwell Beds, and the Queensberry Group or Gala; in the Girvan area, by the Drumyork Flags, Bargany Group and Penkill Group; and in Ireland by the Treveshilly Shales of Strangford Lough, and the shales of Salterstown, Co.
The bridge approaches have to contend with steep rugged slopes and deep ravines covered in forest or thick bush; the area is remote and about 250 km from the nearest city, Lusaka.
Candy canes were first introduced by French confectioners at Basel fairs in the 1860s, and sold in the form of thick candy lumps since about 1879.
The researchers used a 1960s-era light gas gun, originally employed in guided missile studies, to shoot an impactor plate into a sealed container containing a half-millimeter thick sample of liquid hydrogen.
A test in Vincennes in 1849 demonstrated that at 15 yards the bullet was able to penetrate two boards of poplar wood, each two-thirds of an inch thick and separated by 20 inches.
The diamictite sedimentary deposits of the mountain, several kilometers thick, date to the late Precambrian and probably have a glacial-marine origin.
However, mouthing does not always reflect the corresponding spoken word; when signing 'thick' in Auslan, for example, the mouthing is equivalent to spoken fahth.
Pachydermata (from two Greek words παχύς pachys, "thick" and δερμα derma, "skin", meaning 'thick skin') is an obsolete order of mammals described by Gottlieb Storr, Georges Cuvier and others, at one time recognized by many systematists.
In Karachi, the strong presence of Muhajir cuisine has allowed the Masala chai version to be very popular while the thick and milky Doodh Pati Chai is more preferred in Punjab.
Hetman Ivan Mazepa financed the fortification's construction at the height of the Great Northern War, and had a thick stone wall with four towers added for protection of the monastery in case of Swedish or Russian attack.
The structural disturbance is filled by thick rocks of Jurassic age, suggesting that the impact took place during the Triassic.
In 1861, Colonel Richard Moody made the first modern attempt to break through the thick forests that covered the areas now known as Renfrew–Collingwood, building a military trail on the route of an ancient First Nations trail that led from New Westminster to English Bay.
The Pirates, when they established themselves in 1962-64 and again from 1976 onwards as a separate, power trio entity from Johnny Kidd & the Pirates, were pioneers of the technique of playing guitar solos with a thick chordal rhythm-guitar-like style, which was later popularised by Wilko Johnson of Dr. Feelgood in the 1970s.
The city's fortifications were strong, with a wide moat and a thick wall protected by 44 towers, according to the contemporary geographer Ibn Khordadbeh, and the caliph assigned each of his generals to a stretch of the walls.
This region is covered with thick and thin forest, with low rainfall, and is home to number of other tribal communities such as the Chero and Kol.
Underlying the town at some depth is the London Clay stratum, with a thick layer of Boulder clay laid down during the ice ages, including the Anglian.
For instance, in order to build the device the group from the University of Nottingham used 50 alternating layers (each just a few atoms thick) of two chemical compounds known as Aluminium arsenide and Gallium Arsenide.
From then on the highway passes through thick forests featuring many native trees like jarrah, marri and karri.
Other than using thick iron hardware incorporating a four diamonds motif cut into the drawer handle back plates, ogi-dansu often evidence ships' cabinet joinery, atypical of other tansu not crafted on the Japan Sea coast.
Telalginite is a structured organic matter (alginite) in sapropel, composed of large discretely occurring colonial or thick-walled unicellular algae such as Botryococcus, Tasmanites and Gloeocapsomorpha prisca.
A telco cable, also known as a Telecom cable or Amphenol cable, is a thick cable used for connecting multiple voice or data lines for LANs or telecommunications.
However, the fire is stopped when reaching a sturdy, thick-walled Norman building.
An episode in the kids show Fanboy and Chum Chum, is about four people trapped in a convenience store surrounded by a thick fog, fearing that a monster is outside.
The song is rambling and is mixed with notes that resemble that of the Ashy Prinia.
It has been reported interbreeding with the related Lesser Honeyguide (I. minor) and the two are sometimes treated as a single species.
The Thick-billed Vireos song is a variable and rapid six to seven note phrase, starting and ending with a sharp chick, very similar to the White-eyed Vireo, but slightly harsher in sound.
Claves - a percussion instrument consisting of a pair of short, thick dowels.
In 2012, he appeared in the original cast of the off-Broadway Westside Theatre show, "Old Jews Telling Jokes", in which Jessica Shaw of Entertainment Weekly called his portrayal "the funniest moment...delivered with a Yiddish accent as thick as schmaltz".