The Guadeloupe amazon was first described in 1664 by the French botanist Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre. It was mentioned in later natural history works by writers such as Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Comte de Buffon, and John Latham. It received a scientific name in 1789 and was moved to the genus Amazona in 1905. It is thought to have been related to, or possibly the same as, the extant imperial amazon of Dominica.
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The Guadeloupe amazon was first described in 1664 by the French botanist Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre, who also wrote about and illustrated the bird in 1667. It was mentioned in later natural history works by writers such as Mathurin Jacques Brisson, Comte de Buffon, and John Latham. It received a scientific name in 1789 and was moved to the genus Amazona in 1905. A tibiotarsus and an ulna bone from the island of Marie-Galante may belong to the amazon. It is thought to have been related to, or possibly the same as, the extant imperial amazon of Dominica. It had iridescent feathers, and was able to raise aruff of feathers around its neck. The bird fed on fruits and nuts, and the male and female took turns sitting on the nest. French settlers destroyed its habitat, and it appears to have become extinct by the end of the 18th century. In 2004, A. W. Olson and Edgar Maíz, writing in 2008, felt that the Guadelupe Amazon was probably the same. as the imperial amazone. In 2012, Julian Pororor wrote that the species of amazon existed, but that he found it likely to once have been mentioned by trusted observers, rather than on physical remains, and that it was probably once a hypothetical extinct species.
In 2001, the American ornithologists Matthew Williams and David Steadman supported the idea that the early accounts were a solid basis for its existence. They also reported a tibiotsarsus bone found on the Folle Anse archaeological site on Marie- Galante, an island in the Guadaloupe region. In 1905, a species of extinct violet macaw was also claimed to have lived on Guadelope, but in 2015 it was suggested to have was based on a description of the GuaderoupeAmazon. The head, neck and underparts of the bird were mainly violet or slate in colour, mixed with green and black, the back was brownish green and the wings were green, yellow and red. In 1891, the Italian zoologist Tommaso Salvadori included Psittacus violaceus in a list of synonyms of the red-fan parrot, a South American species. The name Amazone comes from the French word ‘Amazone’, which Buffon had used to refer to parrots from the Amazonian rainforest. In 1967, the U.S. ornithologist James Greenway suggested that the amazona may have formed a superspecies with the Imperial amazon and the extinct Martinique amazon, and was perhaps a subspecies of the former.
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