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Santa Cruz Ground Dove
Pampusana sanctaecrucis (Mayr, 1935)
Columbidae — Pigeons, Doves
Santa Cruz Ground Dove, Pampusana sanctaecrucis, is a bird of the Columbidae family that breeds in Australasia on Tinakula and Utupua in the Santa Cruz Islands of the southern Solomon Islands, and on Santo in northern Vanuatu. It lives in moist lowland forest in tropical and subtropical areas. The species was once placed in Alopecoenas, but it is now treated as Pampusana. It was described by Mayr in 1935.
- Order
- Columbiformes
- Family
- Columbidae — Pigeons, Doves
- Breeding range
- Australasia: Tinakula and Utupua (Temotu=Santa Cruz Is., se Solomon Is.) and Santo (n Vanuatu)
