| Layard's parakeet | |
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| Female eating fruit in Sri Lanka | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Psittaciformes |
| Family: | Psittaculidae |
| Genus: | Psittacula |
| Species: | P. calthrapae
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| Binomial name | |
| Psittacula calthrapae (Blyth, 1849)
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Layard's parakeet (Psittacula calthrapae) is a parrot which is a resident endemic breeder in Sri Lanka. The common name of this bird commemorates the British naturalist Edgar Leopold Layard; his first wife, Barbara Anne Calthrop, whom he married in 1845, is commemorated in the specific epithet.
- ^ BirdLife International (2012). "Psittacula calthrapae". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.