Ptilopus alligator = black-banded fruit dove (Ptilinopus alligator)

Query: Columbidae

Result: 263^rd of 329

Subject:	Ptilopus alligator = black-banded fruit dove (Ptilinopus alligator)
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PTILOPUS (LEUCOTRERON) ALLIGATOR = Ptilinopus alligator
Date 1898
Source Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1898
Author John Gerrard Keulemans (1842–1912)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Birds_of_Australia_Plate_21_Leucotreron_%3D_Ptilinopus_alligator.jpg

The black-banded fruit dove (Ptilinopus alligator) is a large pigeon with white head, neck and upper breast; black back and upperwing grading to grey on rump; black tail with broad grey terminal band; underparts grey, demarcated from white head and neck by broad black band. The species is endemic to Australia, where it is restricted to the western edge of the Arnhem Land escarpment.

Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ptilinopus
Species: Ptilinopus alligator Collett, 1898

Columbidae
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