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The Negros fruit dove is a small (16.5cm height), short-tailed fruit dove.It was known only by a single female specimen. The female is a vivid dark green overall with an ash-grey forehead above an extensive ring of bare yellow skin that surrounds the eye. [11]
The fruit doves of the Sunda Islands and northern Australia, such as the pink-headed fruit dove and banded fruit dove, have comparatively longer tails than other species, and are notable for their solid colouration on the head, neck and breast, with a black band across the belly.
Negros fruit dove: Ptilinopus arcanus: Negros Island, Philippines Only known from the type specimen, a female, collected in 1953. Its mate was also shot but the body fell in the underbrush and could not be retrieved. Likely disappeared due to hunting and large escale deforestation of the island. [92]
During that time, he occasionally assisted in biological fieldwork, for example for Sidney Dillon Ripley and Dioscoro Rabor in 1953 when they collected the only known (as of 2019) specimen of the Negros fruit dove. Alcala later attended Stanford University to complete his master's degree after 9 years.
In some areas, a lack of knowledge means the true status of a species is unknown; the Negros fruit dove has not been seen since 1953, [73] and may or may not be extinct, and the Polynesian ground dove is classified as critically endangered, as whether it survives or not on remote islands in the far west of the Pacific Ocean is unknown. [74]
Mindanao bleeding-heart, Gallicolumba criniger Superb fruit-dove, Ptilinopus superbus Green imperial-pigeon, Ducula aenea. ... Negros fruit-dove, Ptilinopus arcanus (E)
Cream-breasted fruit-dove, Ptilinopus merrilli; Yellow-breasted fruit-dove, Ptilinopus occipitalis; Black-chinned fruit-dove, Ptilinopus leclandheri; Negros fruit-dove, Ptilinopus arcanus (possibly extinct) Pink-bellied imperial-pigeon, Ducula poliocephala; Spotted imperial-pigeon, Ducula carola; Philippine collared dove, Streptopelia tenuirostris
A subspecies of the lilac-crowned fruit dove known only from the description of a now-lost specimen. The prehistorically extinct population on Mangaia likely belongs to another distinct subspecies also. Negros spotted imperial pigeon, Ducula carola nigrorum (Negros and probably Siquijor, late 20th century?)