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Species
Macropygia amboinensis Temminck, 1821
Nomenclature
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Family: ColumbidaeGenus: Macropygia
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SUMMARY
Forehead and face dark, orange-brown decoming reddish brown on crown, UnP mostly reddish, darker on W-C which are blackish with reddish tips, P and S brownish black, outer webs with narrow rusty or tawny edges, sides and back of neck, and mantle rusty brown with fine fine blackish flecks. Neck feather with with silvery green or silvery pink fringes, throat pale brown, breast golden brown suffused pink, narrow black bars and brownish black tips to feather giving breast motted effect. Belly and UnT chesnut. Central R dark reddish brown, shorter outer R with black subterminal band. Iris grey or blue with an outer ring of red, orange or yellow. Bill brown or black. Female more heavily barred and redded above, irirescence of neck feather absent, forehead and crown re-brown, speckled black, wing coverts blackish with broad rust or red-brown fringes, hindneck and upper mantle red-brown with with fine dark vermiculations, pale streak beneath the eye, absent in male. Juvenile similar to female but mantle feathers with subterminal bars and rusty fringes.