Patagioenas araucana
Translingual
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
- A taxonomic species within the family Columbidae – the Chilean pigeon.
References
- Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN