Red-moustached Fruit-dove
Extinct circa 1922 CE • Marquesas, French Polynesia
"There is very little to be said about the Marquesas fruit dove, apart from the suggestion that it seems to be extinct."
Fuller, Errol. Extinct Birds. New York, NY: Facts on File, 1988. 183.
Ptilinopus mercierii, Bonaparte, Charles Lucian. "Iconographie Des Pigeons", Non Figurés Par Mme Knip (Mlle Pauline Decourcelles) Dans Les Deux Volumes De MM. Temminck Et Florent Prévost. Paris: P. Bertrand, 1857.
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