Flores Sea Cuckoo-dove
The Flores Sea cuckoo-dove (''Macropygia macassariensis'') is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found on Sulawesi, Tanakeke and Selayar Islands, Selayar Islands, and some of the eastern Lesser Sundas. It was previously lumped together with the Tanimbar cuckoo-dove and the Timor cuckoo-dove as the dusky or bar-necked cuckoo-dove. The Flores Sea cuckoo-dove has two subspecies: * ''M. m. macassariensis'' Alfred Russel Wallace, Wallace, 1865 - southwest Sulawesi, Selayar Islands, Selayar and Tanakeke Islands. * ''M. m. longa'' Wilhelm Meise, Meise, 1930 - Tanah Jampea, Tanahjampea and Kalaotoa Is. (eastern Lesser Sunda Islands, Lesser Sundas) References

* Ng, E.Y.X., J.A. Eaton, P. Verbelen, R.O. Hutchinson, and F.E. Rheindt. 2016. Using bioacoustic data to test species limits in an Indo-Pacific island radiation of Macropygia cuckoo doves. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 118: 786–812. Macropygia Birds of Indonesia Birds described in 1865 {{Columb ...
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was a British natural history, naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection. His 1858 paper on the subject was published that year On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection, alongside extracts from Charles Darwin's earlier writings on the topic. It spurred Darwin to set aside the Natural Selection (manuscript), "big species book" he was drafting, and quickly write an Abstract (summary), abstract of it, published in 1859 as ''On the Origin of Species''. Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin. He then did fieldwork in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the faunal divide now termed the Wallace Line, which separates the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts: a western port ...
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