Description
Bruce's Green-pigeon, Treron waalia, offset reproduction of watercolor
Date 1930
Source Album of Abyssinian Birds and Mammals from Paintings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes (Chicago: Field Museum of Nautral History)
Author Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874–1927) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Agassiz_Fuertes
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Treron_waaliaEYP20A.jpg

The Bruce's green pigeon (Treron waalia) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Somalia, Sudan, Togo, Uganda, and Yemen. It is a frugivore bird species that specialises on eating the fruits of a single species of fig tree, Ficus platphylla. Despite its name, the Bruce's green pigeon is not green but is grey with a light yellow breast instead. Order: Columbiformes, Family: Columbidae, Genus: Treron, Species: Treron waalia (Meyer, 1793).