Psittacus ornatus Linnaeus, 1758 Saudareos ornatus (Linnaeus, 1758) The ornate lorikeet (Saudareos ornata), sometimes named the ornate lory, is a species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae.

[2] It is found in forest, woodland, mangrove and plantations, and is locally common.

[2] The ornate lorikeet was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Psittacus ornatus.

[3] Linnaeus based his description of the "Lory Parrakeet" that had been described and illustrated in 1751 by George Edwards in his "A Natural History of Uncommon Birds".

[4] Linnaeus mistakenly specified the location as "America" although Edwards had stated that the bird had come from the "East Indies" (actually the Indonesian island of Sulawesi).