Ducula rufigaster Quoy & Gaimard, 1830

Rather plump, with shorter wings and tail than many other Ducula, head and foreneck pale mauve-pink shading to rich golden rufous on breast and flanks, to buff on abdomen and whitish on undertail-coverts, hindneck and upper blue-grey, back and wings green aith purplish-red iridescence, rump and basal two-thirds of tail purplish-rer, apical third of tail grey, underside of tail dull grey with paler grey terminal band. Sexes simalr but female tends to be darker on head, with less red iridescence on upperparts. Juvenile resembles adults but duller.