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Gallicolumba erythroptera ssp. nov.

Society Islands ground dove, Garnet-winged pigeon

 

 

Taxonomy & Nomenclature

Synonym/s: see (Hume & Walters, 2012:149)

 

Conservation Status

Extinct

Last record: late 1700's (Hume & Walters, 2012:149)

 

Distribution

Moorea & Tahiti, Society Islands

 

Biology & Ecology

 

 

Hypodigm

 

 

Media

 

 

References

Gmelin, Johann Friedrich. (1789). Systema Naturae. 1, 1789.

Gray, G. R. (1856). On a new species of pigeon. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London [1856]: 6-7.

Holyoak, D. T. (1974). Les oiseaux des îles de la Société. L'Oiseau et la Revue Française d'Ornithologie 44: 1-27, 153-184.

Hume, Julian Pender and Walters, Michael. (2012). Extinct Birds. London: T & AD Poyser. 544 pp.

Latham, John. (1783). A general synopsis of birds, 2 volumes. London, UK: Leigh and Sotheby.

Latham, J. A. (1790). Index ornithologicus, sive systema ornithologiae; complectens avium divisionem in classes, ordines, genera, species, ipsarumque varietates: adjectis synonymis, locis, descriptionibus, &c. London: Leigh & Sotheby.

Lysaght, A. (1959). Some eighteenth century bird paintings in the library of Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820). Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History), Historical series 1(6): 253-371.

Murphy, R. C. (1924). Birds collected during the Whitney South Sea Expedition, I. American Museum Novitates 115: 1-11.

Sharpe, R. B. (1906). Birds, pp. 79-515. In: Lankester, E. R. (ed.). The History of the Collections Contained in the Natural History Departments of the British Museum, volume 2, part 3. London: British Museum (Natural History).

Sonnini, C. S. (1799-1805). Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière, par Leclerc de Buffon. Paris: F. Dufart.

Temminck, C. J. and Knip, P. (1811). Les pigeons par Madame Knip née Pauline de Courcelles, premier peintre d'histoire Naturelle de S.M. l'Impératrice Reine Marie Louis, le texte par Coenraad C.J. Temminck [sic], directieur de l'Academie des Sciences et des Arts de Harlem [sic] etc. Paris: Knip & Garney.

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