The thick-billed green pigeon (Treron curvirostra) is a species of
bird in the family
Columbidae.
Taxonomy
The thick-billed green pigeon was
formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist
Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of
Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with all the other doves and pigeons in the
genusColumba and coined the
binomial nameColumba curvirostra.[2] Gmelin based his description on the "Hook-billed Pigeon" from the "island of Tanna in the South Seas" that had been described and illustrated in 1783 by the English ornithologist
John Latham.[3] Latham was mistaken in believing that his specimen had come from the island of
Tanna in the New Hebrides. The
type locality was designated as the
Malay Peninsula by
Harry C. Oberholser in 1912.[4][5][6] The thick-billed green pigeon is now placed with around 30 other green pigeons in the genus Treron that was introduced in 1816 by the French ornithologist
Louis Pierre Vieillot.[7][8] The genus name is from the
Ancient Greektrērōn meaning "pigeon" or "dove". The specific epithet curvirostra combines the
Latincurvus meaning "curved" with -rostris meaning "billed".[9]
T. c. erimacrus Oberholser, 1924 –
Mindoro and
Palawan group (northwest, southwest Philippines)
Description
Rather small-sized pigeon being under 26 cm (10 in) as compared to other green pigeons. A thick pale greenish bill with red base, broad bluish-Green eye ring, grey crown and maroon mantle diagnostic. Wings have black primary and secondaries with yellow outer edge. Underside green in both sexes. Thighs dark green with whitish scales. Female has greenish undertail coverts with whitish scales. Males have maroon dorsum and dull chestnut undertail coverts.[10][11]
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abRobson, Craig, and Richard Allen. New Holland field guide to the birds of South-East Asia. New Holland Publishers, 2005