The Key to Scientific Names
Edited by James A. Jobling
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- Chrysophaps
(Columbidae; syn. Ptilinopus † Orange Dove P. victor) Gr. χρυσος khrusos gold; φαψ phaps, φαβος phabos pigeon; "Chrysophaps, subg. nov. Characters. Like Chrysœna Bonaparte, but with upper tail-coverts as long or nearly as long as the rectrices; feathers of breast with webs loose and diffuse at tips. Type. Chrysœna victor Gould." (Wetmore 1925); "Chrysophaps Wetmore, Ibis, 1925, p. 833. Type (by original designation): Chrysœna victor Gould." (Mathews, 1927, Syst. Av. Austral., I, p. 42).
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