Macropygia

{{short description|Genus of birds}}

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| image = Slender-billed Cuckoo-Dove.jpg

| image_caption = Slender-billed cuckoo-dove, New Guinea.

| taxon = Macropygia

| authority = Swainson, 1837

| type_species = Macropygia tenuirostris{{cite web |url= https://www.aviansystematics.org/4th-edition-checklist?viewfamilies=66 |title= Columbidae |author= |date= |website= aviansystematics.org |publisher= The Trust for Avian Systematics |access-date= 2023-08-05}}

| type_species_authority = Bonaparte, 1854

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

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Macropygia is a genus of bird in the pigeon and dove family Columbidae. The genus is one of three genera known as cuckoo-doves. They are long tailed, range between 27 and 45 cm in length and have brown plumage. The genus now ranges from India and China through Indonesia and the Philippines to Vanuatu and Australia, though they originated from North and South America.{{cite journal | last=Boyd | first=Bret M. | last2=Nguyen | first2=Nam-Phuong | last3=Allen | first3=Julie M. | last4=Waterhouse | first4=Robert M. | last5=Vo | first5=Kyle B. | last6=Sweet | first6=Andrew D. | last7=Clayton | first7=Dale H. | last8=Bush | first8=Sarah E. | last9=Shapiro | first9=Michael D. | last10=Johnson | first10=Kevin P. | title=Long-distance dispersal of pigeons and doves generated new ecological opportunities for host-switching and adaptive radiation by their parasites | journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | volume=289 | issue=1970 | date=2022-03-09 | issn=0962-8452 | pmid=35259992 | pmc=8905168 | doi=10.1098/rspb.2022.0042|doi-access=free| biorxiv=10.1101/2021.08.02.454751| page=|url=https://serval.unil.ch/resource/serval:BIB_95E61A4ED58D.P001/REF.pdf |access-date=2023-08-21 }}

The genus Macropygia was introduced in 1837 by the English naturalist William Swainson.{{ cite book | last=Swainson | first=William | author-link=William Swainson | year=1837 | title=On the Natural History and Classification of Birds | volume=2 | place=London | publisher=John Taylor | pages=348–349 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41945126 }} The name combines the Ancient Greek makros meaning "long" or "deep" and "-pugios" meaning "-rumped").{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url=https://archive.org/details/helmdictionarysc00jobl_997 | url-access=limited | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=[https://archive.org/details/helmdictionarysc00jobl_997/page/n236 236] }} The type species is the brown cuckoo-dove (Macropygia phasianella).{{cite book| last1=Schodde | first1=R. | author1-link=Richard Schodde |last2=Mason | first2=I.J. | author2-link=Ian J. Mason |year=1997| title=Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Aves (Columbidae to Coraciidae) | volume=37 | issue=2 |publisher=CSIRO publishing | page=23| isbn=978-0-643-06037-1}}

The genus contains the following 15 species:{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | year=2020 | title=Pigeons | work=IOC World Bird List Version 10.1 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/pigeons/ | publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=11 March 2020 }}

• Barred cuckoo-dove (Macropygia unchall)
• Amboyna cuckoo-dove (Macropygia amboinensis)
• Sultan's cuckoo-dove (Macropygia doreya)
• Ruddy cuckoo-dove (Macropygia emiliana)
• Enggano cuckoo-dove (Macropygia cinnamomea)
• Barusan cuckoo-dove (Macropygia modiglianii)
• Timor cuckoo-dove (Macropygia magna)
• Tanimbar cuckoo-dove (Macropygia timorlaoensis)
• Flores Sea cuckoo-dove (Macropygia macassariensis)
• Philippine cuckoo-dove (Macropygia tenuirostris)
• Brown cuckoo-dove (Macropygia phasianella)
• Andaman cuckoo-dove (Macropygia rufipennis)
• Bar-tailed cuckoo-dove (Macropygia nigrirostris)
• Spot-breasted cuckoo-dove (Macropygia mackinlayi)
• Little cuckoo-dove (Macropygia ruficeps)

Extinct species:

• † Huahine cuckoo-dove (Macropygia arevarevauupa), from Huahine in the Society Islands of French Polynesia; the youngest evidence of presence was dated 750 and 1250 years old
• † Marquesan cuckoo-dove (Macropygia heana) from the Marquesas Islands