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Pigeons and Doves (Columbidae)

Yellow-breasted Fruit-dove (Ptilinopus occipitalis) - HBW 4, p. 206

French: Ptilope batilde German: Gelbbrust-Fruchttaube Spanish: Tilopo Occipital
Other common names: Sulphur-breasted Fruit-dove, Yellow-breasted Fruit-pigeon

Taxonomy: Ptilonopus [sic] occipitalis G. R. Gray and Mitchell, 1844, Luzon.
Formerly placed in genus Leucotreron; a later proposal returned all members of that group to Ptilinopus, but placed present species in subgenus Rhamphiculus along with other Philippine and Sulawesi forms P. marchei, P. merrilli, P. fischeri, P. subgularis and P. leclancheri; characters of Rhamphiculus include relatively large size, and emarginated first primaries. Present species is most closely allied to P. fischeri. Racial variation slight and probably clinal or not geographically correlated. Two subspecies tentatively re.. View all taxonomy...

Taxonomy: Ptilonopus [sic] occipitalis G. R. Gray and Mitchell, 1844, Luzon.
Formerly placed in genus Leucotreron; a later proposal returned all members of that group to Ptilinopus, but placed present species in subgenus Rhamphiculus along with other Philippine and Sulawesi forms P. marchei, P. merrilli, P. fischeri, P. subgularis and P. leclancheri; characters of Rhamphiculus include relatively large size, and emarginated first primaries. Present species is most closely allied to P. fischeri. Racial variation slight and probably clinal or not geographically correlated. Two subspecies tentatively recognized.

Subspecies and Distribution:

  • occipitalis G. R. Gray & Mitchell, 1844 - N & E Philippines from Luzon S to Visayas.
  • incognitus (Tweeddale, 1877) - mountains of Mindanao, SE Philippines.

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