_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Caroline Islands--Truk, Ponapé. _Characters._--Adult male: A green fruit dove with forehead, anterior lores and crown near "pansy purple," faintly margined with yellow; occiput, sides of head, neck, upper breast grayish-green with bifid feathers of midbreast more olivaceous; chin and midthroat light yellow; breast, sides and tibia green; midpart of lower breast dark bluish-green, tinged with dark purple; lower abdomen, vent, and undertail yellow, under tail-coverts deeper yellow tinged with orange; upper parts dark green; wings metallic green on outer webs and tips, inner secondaries and some posterior scapulars with purple spots near tips; primaries and secondaries edged on outer webs with yellowish; underwing gray with yellow edges on hind, under wing-coverts; upper side of tail metallic green with terminal, broad yellow band; under side of tail gray; bill lead-colored, feet wine-brown, iris whitish to pale brown. Adult female resembles adult male, but slightly smaller and duller. Immature: Resembles adult, but entirely green with yellow edgings on feathers and lacking crimson crown and colored breast patch. _Measurements._--Measurements of subspecies of _P. porphyraceus_ in Micronesia are presented in table 25. TABLE 25. MEASUREMENTS OF _Ptilinopus porphyraceus_ IN MICRONESIA ===================+============+===============+============+=========== | | | Exposed | SUBSPECIES | Number | Wing | culmen | Tarsus -------------------+------------+---------------+------------+----------- _P. p. ponapensis_ | 12 males | 137 (133-141) | 14 (13-15) | 25 (24-27) | 11 females | 133 (126-137) | 14 (13-15) | 25 (24-26) | | | | _P. p. hernsheimi_ | 6 males | 134 (130-138) | 13 (12-14) | 25 (24-26) | 5 females | 127 (125-130) | 13 (12-13) | 25 (24-25) | | | | _P. p. pelewensis_ | 10 males | 133 (131-134) | 15 (13-15) | 25 (23-26) | 4 females | 133 (130-138) | 15 (14-15) | 24 (23-24) -------------------+------------+---------------+------------+----------- _Specimens examined._--Total number, 81 (52 males, 26 females, 3 unsexed), as follows: Caroline Islands, USNM--Truk, 4 (Feb. 16, Dec. 24); AMNH--Truk, 24 (Jan., June, Oct.)--Ponapé, 53 (Nov., Dec).