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{{short description|Genus of birds}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Bronze wing444.jpg
| image_caption = [[Brush bronzewing]] on nest
| taxon = Phaps
| authority = [[Prideaux John Selby|Selby]], 1835
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
}}

'''''Phaps''''' is a [[genus]] of [[bronzewing pigeon]]s 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]].<ref>{{ 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 }}</ref><ref>{{ 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 }}</ref> The genus name ''Phaps'' ({{lang|grc|φάψ}}) is the [[Ancient Greek]] word for a wild pigeon.<ref>{{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 }}</ref>

The genus contains three species:<ref name=ioc>{{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 }}</ref>
{{Species table |genus= Phaps |authority-name=[[Prideaux John Selby|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
|range-image= File:CBZW range map.svg
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
|habitat=
|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
|population=
|direction=
|subspecies=
}}

{{Species table/row
|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
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
|habitat= 
|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
|population=
|direction=
|subspecies=
}}

{{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
|range-image=
|range-image-size=180px
|size=
|habitat= 
|hunting=
|iucn-status= LC
|population=
|direction=
|subspecies=
}}
{{Species table/end}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Columbimorphae Genera|C.|state=collapsed}}
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[[Category:Phaps| ]]
[[Category:Bird genera]]
[[Category:Endemic birds of Australia]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Prideaux John Selby]]


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