Ptilinopus melanospilus (black-naped fruit dove) Tourterelle, de Batavia.
Date 1765-1783?
Source https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35207033
Author Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc; Daubenton; Daubenton, Edme-Louis; Martinet, Francois Nicolas
Full title Planches enluminées d'histoire naturelle /
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3APlanches_enlumin%FF%FFes_d%2527histoire_naturelle_%289932558215%29.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)
