Patagioenas araucana

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Etymology

The specific name from New Latin araucāna (“Araucanian”), originally used by French ornithologist René-Primevère Lesson in 1828 in the binomial Columba araucana, and called it by the French name colombe araucanienne.[1]

Proper noun

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  1. A taxonomic species within the family Columbidae – the Chilean pigeon.

References

  1. ^ René-Primevère Lesson (1828) “Chapitre VIII. Catalogue des oiseaux recueillis dans l'expédition de La Coquille, avec la description de plusieurs genres nouveaux et d'un grand nombre d'espèces inédites”, in Louis Isidore Duperrey, Voyage Autour du Monde, Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Sur la Corvette de La Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825, sous le ministère et conformément aux instructions de S. E. M. le Marquis de Clermont-Tonnerre, ministre de la marine;  (in French), volume 1, part 2, Paris, 127º, pages 706, 707: “Celle à laquelle nous imposons le nom de colombe araucanienne, provient des bois environnant le petit port de Talcahuano, dans la province de la Concepcion, sur le boulevart du territoire des farouches et billiqueux Araucanos.”
  • Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN
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