Description
English: Columba elphinstonii illustration from Jerdon's Illustrations of Indian Ornithology
Date 1847
Source of Indian Ornithology, Madras http://www.archive.org/stream/illustrationsofi00jerd#page/n235/mode/1upIllustrations
Author T C Jerdon
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ColumbaElphinstoniiJerdon.jpg

The Nilgiri wood pigeon (Columba elphinstonii) is large pigeon found in the moist deciduous forests and sholas of the Western Ghats in southwestern India. The species is evolutionarily close to the Ceylon woodpigeon Columba torringtoni and the ashy wood pigeon Columba pulchricollis which form a clade that is basal within the Old World genus Columba. The binomial commemorates Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779–1859).