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The species Sulu Bleeding-heart is possibly extinct.

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Gallicolumba menagei

[edit] Identification

30 cm. Bright orange-red central patch on white breast, dark grey forehead, iridescent green nape and upper mantle, white throat and breast-sides. Rest of upperparts dark chestnut, glossed deep reddish-purple, with uniform brownish-chestnut wings. Belly ashy-grey, merging into creamy-white vent and undertail-coverts.

[edit] Distribution

Tawitawi I. (Sulu Archipelago), Philippines

[edit] Taxonomy

This species is monotypic.^[1]

[edit] Habitat

Forests.

[edit] Behaviour

Ground feeder.

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019. Spreadsheet available at http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist.

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