Pigeons and Doves (Columbidae)

Yellow-legged Pigeon (Columba pallidiceps) - HBW 4, p. 121

French: Pigeon à tête pâle German: Gelbfußtaube Spanish: Paloma Cabeciclara

Taxonomy: Ianthænas pallidiceps E. P. Ramsay, 1877, Duke of York Island.
Apparently closely related to C. vitiensis, with which it is sympatric in some places. Monotypic.

Distribution: Bismarck Archipelago (New Britain, Duke of York, New Ireland) and Solomon Is.