Ptilinopus melanocephalus = Ptilinopus melanospilus (black-naped fruit dove)

Query: Ptilinopus melanocephalus

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Subject:	Ptilinopus melanocephalus = Ptilinopus melanospilus (black-naped fruit dove)
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Ptilinopus melanocephalus
Date between 1700 and 1880
Artist François-Nicolas Martinet (1731–1800)
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Buffon III p. 48 pl. 214
Old Latin name Ptilinopus melanocephalus
New Latin name Ptilinopus melanospilus
Common name Nederlands: Zwartnekjufferduif
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ptilinopus_melanocephalus_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ15600059.tif

The black-naped fruit dove (Ptilinopus melanospilus), also known as the black-headed fruit dove, is a medium-sized green fruit dove with yellowish bill and iris. The male has a pale grey head with a black nape, yellow throat, and golden yellow and pink undertail coverts. The plumage of the female and the young doves are entirely green. The black-naped fruit doves are distributed in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.

Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ptilinopus
Species: Ptilinopus melanospilus (Salvadori, 1875)

Ptilinopus melanocephalus
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