Didunculus

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 2008

In some respects he was misinformed, notably in that in which he was told that the _Didunculus_ was peculiar to the Samoan Islands; for the bird certainly is known in some of the Solomon Islands, and also in the

The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884

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 Louis Becke 1884

_Didunculus_ is now alive, and in good health in the gardens, and Mr. Bartlett assures me is likely to do well '.

The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884

Didunculus of Samoa; and a new genus (Henicophaps), discovered by myself, which possesses a very long and powerful bill, quite unlike that of any other pigeon.

The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2 Alfred Russel Wallace 1868

I have looked through the magnificent collection of the Columbidæ in the British Museum, and, with the exception of a few forms (such as the Didunculus, Calænas, Goura, &c), I do not hesitate to {133} affirm that some domestic races of the rock-pigeon differ fully as much from each other in external characters as do the most distinct natural genera.

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845

_Didunculus_, or tooth-billed pigeon) she would take it to Apia and sell it for five dollars -- sometimes ten.

The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884

"One of the curiosities of Samoan natural history is _Le Manu Mea_, or red bird of the natives, the tooth-billed pigeon (_Didunculus

The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884