Barred Parakeet
The Barred Parakeet (Bolborhynchus lineola), also known as Lineolated Parakeet, Catherine Parakeet or 'Linnies' for short, is a small parrot found disjunctly in highland forests from southern Mexico to Panama, in the Andes from western Venezuela to southern Peru, the Santa Marta Mountains in Colombia and the Venezuelan Coastal Range. Its plumage is mostly green with multiple black and dark green stripes or bars, and it has a pale-horn coloured beak. The dark stripes vary in prominence between its two subspecies. Several colour mutants are available in aviculture.
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Taxonomy
There are two subspecies of the Barred Parakeet:
- Bolborhynchus lineola (Cassin 1853)
- Bolborhynchus lineola lineola (Cassin 1853)
- Bolborhynchus lineola tigrinus (Souance 1856) – which has more prominent dark stripes
