 The whistling fruit dove is the most primitive of the "golden doves", a small subgroup of the genus "Ptilinopus" which includes two other small Fijian fruit doves, the golden fruit dove and the orange fruit dove.The group was once split into its own genus, "Chrysoenas".The whistling fruit dove is a small dove (20 cm) that is sexually dimorphic in its velvety plumage.