This dove is endemic to Jamaica. It has a grey face with a red line below the eye and green and purple iridescence on its plumage. It lives in wet limestone areas and mountains and eats fruit and seeds as well as invertebrates.
The upperparts are green-black with purple iridescence above and on the tail. The underparts are grey; the face and neck are grey, with a red stripe below the eye.
Its diet includes invertebrates, fruit and seeds. It builds a twig nest on or near the ground.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
In Jamaica’s Cockpit Country, Crested Quail-Dove was associated with less-disturbed forest sites.