Pigeons and Doves (Columbidae)

Pink-headed Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus porphyreus) - HBW 4, p. 205

French: Ptilope porphyre German: Rothals-Fruchttaube Spanish: Tilopo Cuellirrosa
Other common names: Pink-necked Fruit-dove

Taxonomy: Columba porphyrea Temminck, 1823, Java.
Formerly placed in genus Leucotreron; a later proposal returned the present species to genus Ptilinopus, but within subgenus Leucotreron along with P. cinctus, P. alligator and P. dohertyi; these four species currently considered to form a superspecies. Monotypic.

Distribution: Sumatra (Mt Kerinci and Mt Dempu in Barisan Range), Java and Bali.

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