 Because of this association, some authors believed it was from the Mascarene Islands as well, but this dark parrot's description differs from that of the Mascarene parrot.This disagreement led some authors to use now-invalid combinations of the scientific names, such as "Mascarinus obscurus" and "Coracopsis obscura".The unidentified parrot may have been a grey parrot ("Psittacus erithacus") instead.