<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> <Ul> <Li> Platycercus icterotis </Li> <Li> Platycercus elegans </Li> <Li> Platycercus caledonicus </Li> <Li> Platycercus adscitus </Li> <Li> Platycercus eximius </Li> <Li> Platycercus venustus </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> Platycercus icterotis </Li> <Li> Platycercus elegans </Li> <Li> Platycercus caledonicus </Li> <Li> Platycercus adscitus </Li> <Li> Platycercus eximius </Li> <Li> Platycercus venustus </Li> </Ul> <P> Rosellas are in a genus that consists of six species and nineteen subspecies . These colourful parrots from Australia are in the genus Platycercus . Platycercus means "broad - tailed" or "flat - tailed", reflecting a feature common to the rosellas and other members of the broad - tailed parrot tribe . Their diet is mainly seeds and fruit . </P> <P> Early European settlers encountered the eastern rosella at Rose Hill, New South Wales, now Parramatta, and so they called it the Rosehill parakeet which became "Rosehiller", and eventually "rosella". Nicholas Aylward Vigors defined the genus Platycercus in 1825, based on the distinctive architecture of the feathers in the tail and wing, and designated the crimson rosella (as Platycercus Pennantii) as the type species . </P>

A small parrot native to the australian outback is called