Columba purpurata = Ptilinopus roseicapilla (Mariana fruit dove, totot)

Query: Dove

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Subject:	Columba purpurata = Ptilinopus roseicapilla (Mariana fruit dove, totot)
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English: « Columba purpurata » = Ptilinopus roseicapilla (Mariana Fruit Dove)
Français : « Columba purpurata » = Ptilinopus roseicapilla (Ptilope des Mariannes)
Date 1832
Source Kupfertafeln zur Naturgeschichte der Vögel https://archive.org/stream/kupfertafelnzurn00kitt#page/n99/mode/2up
Author Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799–1874)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ptilinopus_roseicapilla_1832.jpg

The Mariana fruit dove (Ptilinopus roseicapilla), totot on Guam or Paluman totut in Northern Marianas Islands, also known as mwee’mwe in the Carolinian language, is a small, up to 24 cm long, green fruit dove native and endemic to Guam and the Northern Marianas Islands in the Pacific. Ptilinopus roseicapilla has a red forehead; greyish head, back and breast; and yellow belly patch and undertail coverts.

Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ptilinopus
Species: Ptilinopus roseicapilla (Lesson, 1831)

Dove
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