Pigeons and Doves (Columbidae)

Blue-capped Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus monacha) - HBW 4, p. 217

French: Ptilope moine German: Blaukappen-Fruchttaube Spanish: Tilopo Monje
Other common names: Blue-crowned Fruit-dove

Taxonomy: Columba monacha Temminck, 1824, Sulawesi; error = Halmahera.
A distinct form of uncertain affinities, formerly considered to be very closely related to P. coronulatus, but now thought to be more distant; sometimes placed with P. coronulatus in the large P. purpuratus species-group. Monotypic.

Distribution: N Moluccas on Morotai, Halmahera, Ternate, Tidore, Moti, Kayoa, Kasiruta, Bacan, Damar and Obi.