Golden Heart Dove (Gallicolumba rufigula)
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Golden Heart Dove (Gallicolumba rufigula)
Description:
Adult:
Forehead to about the top of the head
is a warm orangey-buff. Top of head
to nape is rich purplish-brown merging
into the maroon-brown mantle and side
of the breast which is washed with
blue-grey. Supercilium from above
the middle of the eye, and spreading
out behind the ear-coverts, are pale
slaty-blue. The lores and ear-coverts
are a soft pinkish. Scapulars and
wing-coverts are rich maroon-brown.
Lesser, median and greater coverts
are all variably tipped blue-grey
forming four distinct wing-bars. the
tertials, secondaries and primaries
are dark brown; the secondaries are
warmer and edged pale buff apically.
The back to the uppertail-coverts
and central tail fathers are rich
maroon-brown. The outermost two variably
grey with variable blackish subterminal
bands and clear grey apical bands
on each. The chin and throat are creamy
white with golden-straw suffusion
across the centre. The abdomen is
creamy, shading into the buff vent
and undertail-coverts. Flanks and
axillaries are dull brown with creamy-yellow
fringes to the feathers forming a
barred pattern. The undertail is dark
brown with a grey tip. Underwing-coverts
are dark brownish-grey with creamy
tips to some coverts forming a barred
pattern. Underside of the flight feathers
is grey. Iris is dark magenta-brown
and orbital skin is grey-brown. The
bill is dark slate, tinged magenta
with a dull olive tip. Feet are dull
purplish-red.
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