A pigeon with a white face and dark body. It eats fruit in trees and uses several kinds of woodland on Sulawesi.
Adults have a white forehead, face, and throat, a dark gray body, and iridescent green or purple on the neck. The sexes look alike; juveniles show less white on the face and less neck gloss.
It feeds on fruit in trees. On Sulawesi it uses primary forest as well as secondary and degraded forest, wooded gorges, and orchards.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.