Henicophaps

Henicophaps is a small genus of doves that are endemic to New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago. These are stocky pigeons with unusually long heavy bills that live in wet forests and forage primary on the ground.

Henicophaps
New Britain bronzewing, Henicophaps foersteri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Columbiformes
Family:	Columbidae
Subfamily:	Columbinae
Genus:	Henicophaps G.R. Gray, 1862
Type species
Henicophaps albifrons Gray GR, 1862
Species
See text

English zoologist George Robert Gray introduced the genus Henicophaps in 1862 to accommodate the New Guinea bronzewing (Henicophaps albifrons) that had been collected by the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace on the island of Waigeo, northwest New Guinea.^[1] The genus name combines the Ancient Greek henikos meaning "unique" and "phaps" meaning "pigeon".^[2]

The genus includes two species.^[3]

• New Guinea bronzewing (Henicophaps albifrons)
• New Britain bronzewing (Henicophaps foersteri)