Pigeons and Doves (Columbidae)

Rapa Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus huttoni) - HBW 4, p. 216

French: Ptilope de Hutton German: Rapafruchttaube Spanish: Tilopo de Rapa
Other common names: Rapa Island/Hutton's/Long-billed Fruit-dove

Taxonomy: Ptilonopus [sic] huttoni Finsch, 1874, Rapa Island, Tubuai Islands.
A distinctive form that is thought to be a rather distant offshoot of the P. purpuratus species-group, perhaps closest to the P. purpuratus subgroup. Monotypic.

Distribution: Rapa I in Tubuai (Austral) Is.