Pigeon (size of life) Loyalty Isles by Charles Heaphy - red-bellied fruit dove (Ptilinopus greyi) A Red bellied fruit dove, Ptilinopus greyi, perched on a branch with delicate foliage, horizon line and cliff in background.
Date 1853
Artist Charles Heaphy (1820–1881)
Title Pigeon (size of life) Loyalty Isles by Charles Heaphy
Part of Sketches in the Loyalty and other Islands, 1853
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The red-bellied fruit dove (Ptilinopus greyi) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in lowland forest in New Caledonia, Santa Cruz Islands (Solomons), and Vanuatu, and it is common in most of its range. The red-bellied fruit dove is overall green, but has a purplish-red crown and patch on the central belly. Adults of the two genders are very similar, although the belly patch is slightly smaller in the female.
Order: Columbiformes
Family: Columbidae
Genus: Ptilinopus
Species: Ptilinopus greyi Bonaparte, 1857
Synonyms: Ptilinopus greyii
