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dove

4 Kiribati words

• taobe
  • Bingham a dove.
  • Sabatier a dove <bird>.
• turokon
  • Bingham the turtle dove.
• rube
  • Bingham a pigeon, a dove.
• bitin (taobe)
  • Goo & Banner ground dove (The coloring is typically darkish grey and white; The head, neck, back and upper breast are grey with a purplish and greenish sheen or irridescence; The secondary wing feathers are mainly dark grey and the primaries and tail feathers mainly white; The abdomen is white, often speckled with grey and the under tail-coverts, white. The short bill is dark grey with a small whitish operculum at the base; The legs and feet are coral red, or purplish red. Some birds have less white than others, and hardly any two are exactly alike) <bird> (aa).