Columba melanocephala = Ptilinopus melanospilus (black-naped fruit dove)

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Subject:	Columba melanocephala = Ptilinopus melanospilus (black-naped fruit dove)
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Columba melanocephala = Ptilinopus melanospilus (black-naped fruit dove)
Date 1781
Source Indische Zoologie
Author Peter Mazell
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Forster_Plate_7.jpg

The black-naped fruit dove (Ptilinopus melanospilus), also known as the black-headed fruit dove, is a medium-sized green fruit dove with yellowish bill and iris. The male has a pale grey head with a black nape, yellow throat, and golden yellow and pink undertail coverts. The plumage of the female and the young doves are entirely green. The black-naped fruit doves are distributed in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.

Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ptilinopus
Species: Ptilinopus melanospilus (Salvadori, 1875)

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