western bronze-naped pigeon (Columba iriditorques) male Description
Turturoena iriditorques Male
Date circa 1898
Source Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums http://archive.org/stream/bulletinofliverp01forb#page/n334/mode/1up
Author John Gerrard Keulemans (1842–1912) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gerrard_Keulemans
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bulletinofliverp01forb_0333a.jpg
The western bronze-naped pigeon (Columba iriditorques) is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Togo, Uganda, and Zambia. It is part of the Turturoena subgenus. Order: Columbiformes, Family: Columbidae, Genus: Columba, Subgenus: Turturoena, Species: Columba iriditorques Cassin, 1856.
