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Species
Trugon terrestris Gray, GR, 1849
Nomenclature
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Family: ColumbidaeGenus: Trugon
SUMMARY
Specialized thick, blunt bill. Forehead pinkish white becoming dark bluish grey on crown and nape, white to buffish white ear-coverts and throat separated by bluish grey malar stripe, blackish collar, nape feathers tend to be longer, forming a nuchal crest, especially noticeable when neck is streched, rest of neck, mantle and breast bluish grey, wings dark brown to dull grey, rest of UpP and tail dark brownish grey, UnW banded black and white, belly white merging to reddish buff or pale chesnut on flanks and outer webs of UnT-C, iris orange to ruby red, orbital skin grey, bill dark grey at base, pinkish white near tip, legs and feet pink. Sexes similar, but female has W-C slightly more violaceos. Juvenile has darker iris and dark mark on midridge of the culmen, wing feathers edged rufous. Race leucopareia has innermost W-C dark purplish chesnut and rest of coverts as well as outer webs of primaries and secondaries chesnut, mayri grey rather than white on face, and W-C only slightly chesnut-tinged, with belly and flanks paler than in nominate.