Description
The Pompadour Green Pigeon is a stocky, medium-sized pigeon, 25 to 28 centimetres (9.8 to 11 in) in length, with some subspecies significantly larger than others (e.g., chloropterus is significan larger than the subspecies from the Asian mainland). The head is green to greenish-yellow, and the underparts are green, though males of the subspecies phayrei have a pale orange patch on the chest. The crown, including the forehead is grey, except in the nominate subspecies where the forehead is greenish-yellow. The undertail coverts are mainly whitish or pale yellowish, though they are deep cinnamon in males of affinis and phayrei. The wings are blackish with distinct yellow edging to the wing coverts and tertials. The mantle is dark green in the female and deep purplish-chestnut in the male. In most subspecies, this includes the "shoulder", but in males of aromaticus the "shoulder" is very dark grey and in males of chloropterus it is green. Furthermore, males of aromaticus and some members of the axillaris group have a grey band above the mantle.
The legs are reddish in most subspecies, but grey in the axillaris group. The eyes are maroon-red or deep to very light blue (depends on subspecies), and the bill is whitish-grey with a dull, pale greenish or bluish base, except in the axillaris group where the base is red.
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T. p. phayrei (male above, female below)
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T. p. aromatica (male in foreground, female behind)
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T. p. axillaris (male in foreground, female behind)
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T. p. pompadora (male)
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