Phaps

{{short description|Genus of birds}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Bronze wing444.jpg

| image_caption = Brush bronzewing on nest

| taxon = Phaps

| authority = Selby, 1835

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

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Phaps is a genus of bronzewing pigeons in the family Columbidae that are native to Australia.

The genus was introduced in 1835 by the English naturalist Prideaux John Selby with the common bronzewing (Phaps chalcoptera) as the type species.{{ cite book | last=Selby | first=Prideaux John | author-link=Prideaux John Selby | year=1835 | title=Pigeons | series=The Naturalist's Library | place=Edinburgh | publisher=W.H. Lizars | page=194 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49857041 }}{{ cite book | editor-last=Peters | editor-first=James Lee | editor-link=James L. Peters | year=1937 | title=Check-list of Birds of the World | volume=3 | publisher=Harvard University Press | place=Cambridge, Massachusetts | page=117 | url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14477832 }} The genus name Phaps ({{lang|grc|φάψ}}) is the Ancient Greek word for a wild pigeon.{{cite book | last=Jobling | first=James A. | year=2010| title=The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | publisher=Christopher Helm | location=London | isbn=978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=301 }}

The genus contains three 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=5 March 2020 }}

{{Species table |genus= Phaps |authority-name=Selby|authority-year=1835 |species-count=three|no-note=y|narrow-percent=75}}

{{Species table/row

|name=Common bronzewing |binomial=Phaps chalcoptera

|image=File:Common Bronzewing male - Patchewollock.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Latham |authority-year=1790 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Australia

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|range-image-size=180px

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|iucn-status= LC

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|name=Brush bronzewing |binomial=Phaps elegans

|image=File:Brush Bronzewing 0A2A1691.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Temminck |authority-year=1809 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Australia

|range-image=File:Brush Bronzewing.png

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|iucn-status= LC

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{{Species table/row

|name=Flock bronzewing |binomial=Phaps histrionica

|image=File:Phaps histrionica 1.jpg|image-size=180px |image-alt=

|authority-name=Gould |authority-year=1841 |authority-not-original=yes

|range= Australia

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|iucn-status= LC

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