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Negros Fruit Dove
Ptilinopus arcanus Ripley & Rabor, 1955
Columbidae — Pigeons, Doves
Negros Fruit Dove, Ptilinopus arcanus, is a pigeon and dove of Negros in the West Visayas of the Philippines, known from a single specimen. It was described by Ripley & Rabor in 1955. The bird is identified from a female taken on the slopes of Mount Kanlaon in the north of the island. It has vivid dark green plumage, an ashy-grey forehead, a bare yellow eye-ring, white throat, and yellow on the undertail and vent, with yellow feather edges that can suggest a wingbar when perched.
- Order
- Columbiformes
- Family
- Columbidae — Pigeons, Doves
- Breeding range
- Oriental Region: Negros (West Visayas, wc Philippines; known from single specimen)
