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New Guinea Bronzewing
Henicophaps albifrons Gray, GR, 1862
Columbidae — Pigeons, Doves
New Guinea Bronzewing, Henicophaps albifrons, is a pigeon in the Columbidae family that occurs in New Guinea and some nearby islands. It lives in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest. George Robert Gray described it in 1862 from a specimen gathered on Waigeo, northwest of New Guinea. Two subspecies are recognised: H. a. albifrons from the west Papuan islands, New Guinea and Yapen Island, and H. a. schlegeli from the Aru Islands.
- Order
- Columbiformes
- Family
- Columbidae — Pigeons, Doves
- Breeding range
- Australasia: New Guinea and some w satellites
