Psittacinae

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Psittacinae (Latin psittacinus, from psittacus parrot, from Greek ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿) a subfamily in the parrot family Psittacidae. It contains the true parrots, parakeets and macaws, but not the lories, lorikeets and cockatoos. The relationships between tribes are confusing and systematics are in need of thorough revision. Sometimes most tribes are raised to the rank of subfamilies but as the lories and lorikeets are a rather distinct group, the system used here seems at present still better to reflect the evolutionary relationships of these birds. It seems fairly certain by now that some lineages of psittacines will eventually be recognized as distinct subfamilies, and that perhaps the cockatoos would be considered a subfamily also, as some prehistoric families of Psittaciformes appear to be even more distinct than the cockatoos are.