Melopsittacus

The birds were also very numerous, large flocks of black cockatoos, cockatoo parrots, galaas, budgerygars or grass parrots ( 'Melopsittacus Undulatus, Gould'), and some grey quail were frequently seen, and on one of the lagoons a solitary snipe was found.

Narrative of the Overland Expedition of the Messrs. Jardine from Rockhampton to Cape York, Northern Queensland Frank Jardine 1880

One of the most graceful of the parrot tribe, coming in, as I have stated above, with the Melopsittacus, and remaining during the summer.

Expedition into Central Australia Charles Sturt 1832

This grass was, however, very different from the panicum, of the seeds of which the natives of the Gwyder River make a sort of bread; and which there forms the principal food of the little Betshiregah (Melopsittacus undulatus, GOULD).

Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830

Platycercus of Darling Downs, and the Betshiregah (Melopsittacus undulatus, GOULD.) were very numerous, and it is probable that the plains round the gulf are their principal home, whence they migrate to the southward.

Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845 Ludwig Leichhardt 1830

APMV-5 was first isolated from an epizootic outbreak involving budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus) at Kunitachi, Tokyo, Japan in 1974

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arthur S. Samuel et al. 2010

Nakayama M, Ishida M, Fukumi H (1978) Isolation of a new avian paramyxovirus from budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus).

PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Arthur S. Samuel et al. 2010