Touit
Touit is a genus of Neotropical parrots in the family Psittacidae. The genus was introduced by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1855 with the scarlet-shouldered parrotlet ("Touit huetii") as the type species. The genus name is derived from the extinct Tupi language that was spoken by native people in Brazil: "Tuí eté" means "really little parrot". In 1648 the German naturalist Georg Marcgrave used "Tuiete" for a small parrot in his "Historia Naturalis Brasiliae". The genus contains the following eight species: