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Columba purpurata = Superb fruit dove (Ptilinopus superbus)
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Columba purpurata Latham
Purple-crowned Pigeon
Source https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39769900
Date 1826
Author William Jardine; Edward Lear; R. C. W. Mitford; Prideaux John Selby
Full title Illustrations of ornithology /
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AIllustrations_of_ornithology_%28Color_Plate_70%29_%287747989928%29.jpg
The superb fruit dove (Ptilinopus superbus), also known as the purple-crowned fruit dove, is a medium-sized, colourful fruit-dove in the family Columbidae. Ptilinopus superbus is sexually dimorphic. Males are superbly coloured with a fiery orange nape, green ears, and a purple crown. Female doves are mostly green, with a white abdomen, blue wing tips, light blue breast, and a small, dark blue spot on the back of the head. Both sexes have yellow eyes and eye-rings. Despite its colourful plumage, the superb fruit dove is well-camouflaged amongst the rainforest foliage. Native to Australasia, the superb fruit doves live in the rainforests of New Guinea, Australia, Solomon Islands, the Philippines and Sulawesi of Indonesia.
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ptilinopus
Species: Ptilinopus superbus Temminck, 1809 |
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