''Gallicolumba'' is a mid-sized

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of ground-dwelling

dove Columbidae is a bird family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with small heads, relatively short necks and slender bills that in some species feature fleshy ceres. ...

s (

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Columbidae), most of which occur in rainforests on the

Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

. Local name 'punay' which is a general term for pigeons and doves. They are not closely related to the American ground doves genus ( ''Columbina'' and related genera). Rather, the present genus is closest to the thick-billed ground pigeon. The Filipino species are known as bleeding-hearts due to their vivid-red patch on the breast, which looks startlingly like a bleeding wound in some species and has reminded

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s of a

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stab. The diet of doves of this genus consists of fruits and seed.

Systematics and extinctions

''Gallicolumba'' might be ranked as a (very small)

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, but the available data suggests that they are better considered part of a quite basal

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Columbidae Columbidae is a bird Family (biology), family consisting of doves and pigeons. It is the only family in the Order (biology), order Columbiformes. These are stout-bodied birds with small heads, relatively short necks and slender bills that in ...

which consists of many small and often bizarre lineages (e.g. '' Goura'' and '' Otidiphaps'' which are

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ly convergent to

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, and maybe even the famous didines (Raphinae). The genus contains seven species: *

Sulawesi ground dove The Sulawesi ground dove (''Gallicolumba tristigmata''), also known as the yellow-breasted ground dove, is a medium-sized (approximately 35 cm), ground-dwelling dove. It is mostly olive-brown with a golden forehead, iridescent bluish-green c ...

, ''Gallicolumba tristigmata'' *

Cinnamon ground dove The cinnamon ground dove (''Gallicolumba rufigula'') also known as golden-heart dove, red-throated ground dove or golden-heart pigeon is a species of ground-dwelling dove in the genus ''Gallicolumba''. It is native to New Guinea. Description ...

, ''Gallicolumba rufigula'' *

Luzon bleeding-heart The Luzon bleeding-heart, bleeding-heart dove, bleeding-heart pigeon or punay (''Gallicolumba luzonica'') is a species of ground dove in the genus '' Gallicolumba,'' known as "bleeding-hearts" due to their distinctive red patch on its chest. It ...

, ''Gallicolumba luzonica'' *

Mindanao bleeding-heart The Mindanao bleeding-heart (''Gallicolumba crinigera''), also known as Bartlett's bleeding heart dove, Barlett's bleeding heart pigeon and the hair-breasted bleeding heart, is a species of bird in the Columbidae, pigeon family (biology), family. ...

, ''Gallicolumba crinigera'' *

Mindoro bleeding-heart The Mindoro bleeding-heart (''Gallicolumba platenae''), also referred to as ''kulo-kulo'', ''la-do'', ''manatad'', ''manuk-manuk'', ''punay'', and ''puñalada'' by the Mangyan, is a species of ground dove native solely to the island of Mindoro in ...

, ''Gallicolumba platenae'' *

Negros bleeding-heart The Negros bleeding-heart (''Gallicolumba keayi'') is endemic to the Philippines where it is found on the islands of Negros and Panay. It is a ground dwelling dove found in tropical moist lowland forest. Among all five bleeding hearts, it is dis ...

, ''Gallicolumba keayi'' *

Sulu bleeding-heart The Sulu bleeding-heart or Tawitawi bleeding-heart (''Gallicolumba menagei'') is a species of bird in the pigeon and dove family, Columbidae. It is endemic to the island of Tawi-Tawi and its surrounding islets in the Philippines' Sulu Archipelago ...

, ''Gallicolumba menagei'' - possibly

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(late 1990s?) Many of the Pacific ground doves were removed from ''Gallicolumba'' (which was non-

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) and reassigned to the genus ''

Alopecoenas ''Pampusana'' is a mid-sized genus of ground-dwelling doves (family (biology), family Columbidae) which occur in rainforests in the Pacific region. They are not closely related to the American ground doves (Columbina (genus), genus ''Columbina'' ...

'', which was later renamed ''

Pampusana ''Pampusana'' is a mid-sized genus of ground-dwelling doves (family (biology), family Columbidae) which occur in rainforests in the Pacific region. They are not closely related to the American ground doves (Columbina (genus), genus ''Columbina'' ...

''.

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q920895 Bird genera Taxa named by Johann Georg Heck Taxa described in 1849