Ptilinopus pulchellus (beautiful fruit dove)

Query: fruit pigeon

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Subject:	Ptilinopus pulchellus (beautiful fruit dove)
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Ptilinopus pulchellus
Date between 1700 and 1880
Notes This object is part of the collection Iconographia Zoologica
Source/Photographer Temminck pl. col. 564
Old Latin name Ptilinopus pulchellus
New Latin name Ptilinopus pulchellus
Common name Nederlands: Temmincks jufferduif
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ptilinopus_pulchellus_-_1700-1880_-_Print_-_Iconographia_Zoologica_-_Special_Collections_University_of_Amsterdam_-_UBA01_IZ15600071.tif

The beautiful fruit dove (Ptilinopus pulchellus), also known as the rose-fronted pigeon or crimson-capped fruit dove, is a small and mainly green fruit dove. It has a red crown, whitish throat, a greenish-yellow bill and purplish-red feet. The beautiful fruit dove is distributed in rainforests of New Guinea and the islands of Batanta, Waigeo, Salawati and Misool in West Papua, Indonesia.

Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ptilinopus
Species: Ptilinopus pulchellus (Temminck, 1835)

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