New Guinea bronzewing

New Guinea bronzewing
Conservation status
	; Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Columbiformes
Family:	Columbidae
Genus:	Henicophaps
Species:	H. albifrons
Binomial name
	Henicophaps albifrons; Gray, 1862

The New Guinea bronzewing (Henicophaps albifrons) is a species of bird in the pigeon and dove family Columbidae. It is found in New Guinea. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.

The New Guinea bronzewing was described and given the binomial name Henicophaps albifrons by the English zoologist George Robert Gray in 1862 from a specimen that had been collected by the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace on the island of Waigeo, northwest New Guinea.[2] The specific epithet combines the Latin albus meaning "white" and frons meaning "forehead" or "front".[3]

Two subspecies are recognised:[4]

H. a. albifrons Gray, GR, 1862 – west Papuan islands, New Guinea, Yapen Island (off northwest New Guinea)
H. a. schlegeli (von Rosenberg, HKB, 1866) – Aru Islands (southwest of New Guinea)

References

BirdLife International (2012). "Henicophaps albifrons". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url
Gray, George Robert (1861). "Remarks on, and descriptions of, new species of birds lately sent by Mr. A. R. Wallace from Waigiou, Mysol, and Gagie Islands". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (Part 3): 427–438 [432] Plate 44.
Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Pigeons". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 15 March 2020.

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[1] BirdLife International (2012). "Henicophaps albifrons". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2012. Retrieved 26 November 2013.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)old-form url

[2] Gray, George Robert (1861). "Remarks on, and descriptions of, new species of birds lately sent by Mr. A. R. Wallace from Waigiou, Mysol, and Gagie Islands". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (Part 3): 427–438 [432] Plate 44.

[3] Jobling, James A. (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 38. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.

[ioc-4] Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (2020). "Pigeons". IOC World Bird List Version 10.1. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 15 March 2020.