Ptilopus mercierii = Ptilinopus mercierii mercierii (red-moustached fruit dove)

Query: Fruit pigeon

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Subject:	Ptilopus mercierii = Ptilinopus mercierii mercierii (red-moustached fruit dove)
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Ptilopus mercierii = Ptilinopus mercierii mercierii
From Iconographie des Pigeons by Charles Lucien (Carlo) Jules Laurent Bonaparte(1803–1857).

Date 1800s
Source http://extinct-website.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=22_48&products_id=466
Author Charles Lucien Bonaparte
Source https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40473954
Author Charles Lucien (Carlo) Jules Laurent Bonaparte
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ptilinopus_mercierii_mercierii.jpg

The red-moustached fruit dove (Ptilinopus mercierii) was a species of bird in the family Columbidae. Ptilinopus mercierii was endemic to French Polynesia. The head, breast, and neck of these doves were bluish grey, and the tail was short, almost square shaped. The underpart plumage was golden yellow in colour. The last record was of the subspecies P. m. tristrami on Hiva Oa, in 1922. In 1994, Ptilinopus mercierii was listed as an extinct species on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Endangered Species.

Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ptilinopus
Species: Ptilinopus mercierii (Des Murs & Prévost, 1849)

Fruit pigeon
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