tooth-billed

• “Other modern representatives include the crowned pigeons of New Guinea and the tooth-billed pigeon of Samoa.”

  Extinct Dodo Related to Pigeons

• “These include northern logrunner or chowchilla Orthonyx spaldingii, little treecreeper Climacteris minor, Atherton scrubwren Sericornis keri, Australian fernwren Crateroscelis gutturalis, mountain thornbill Acanthiza katherina, bridled honeyeater Lichenostomus frenatus, Bower's shrike-thrush Colluricincla megarhyncha, tooth-billed catbird Ailuroedus dentirostris and golden bowerbird Prionodura newtoniana.”

  Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia

• “Large islands in Samoa support up to 6 species of fruit-eating pigeons including the Samoan tooth-billed pigeon (Didunculus strigirostris), a monotypic genus endemic to the islands.”

  Samoan tropical moist forests

• “Samoa has the tooth-billed pigeon and the white-throated pigeon.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Song of The Dodo

• “I have read somewhere that the dodo and a relative of his called the 'tooth-billed pigeon' are still to be found on this island.”

  The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson

• “The remarkable feature of the bird is that whilst its legs are those of a pigeon, the beak is that of the parrot family, the upper mandible being hooked like the parrot's, the under one being deeply serrated; hence the name, tooth-billed pigeon.”

  The Call Of The South 1908

• “Presently, as we were all smoking and exchanging compliments in the high-flown, stilted Samoan style, there entered the house a strapping young warrior, carrying a wickerwork cage, in which were two of the rare and famous _Manu Mea_ (red-bird) of Samoa -- the _Didunculus_ or tooth-billed pigeon.”

  The Call Of The South 1908

• “In birds, also, we see an advance from the imperfect tooth-billed and reptile-tailed birds of the secondary epoch, to the wonderfully developed falcons, crows, and swallows of our time.”

  Darwinism (1889)

• “Bird species diversity is highest in the humid forests and the park is very important for the conservation of Amazon species of conservation concern, such as red-throated piping-guan Aburria cujubi, Gould’s toucanet Selenidera gouldii, snowy-capped manakin Pipra nattereri and tooth-billed wren Odontorchilus cinereus, that are restricted to the Amazon region south of the Amazon River and east of the Madeira River.”

  Noel Kempff Mercado National Park, Bolivia

• “(tooth-billed pigeons) making their way down to the coast.”

  The Call Of The South 1908

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