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The
slender-billed cuckoo-dove (formerly
Macropygia amboinensis) was until recently the name of a species of
bird in the family
Columbidae. Its range covered
Brunei, Indonesia,
Malaysia,
Papua New Guinea and northern
Australia. The binomial
M. amboinensis now refers to the
Amboyna cuckoo-dove. The
taxonomy of the slender-billed cuckoo-dove was complex, but most authorities now split it into four species based on analyses of vocalizations. This will be further refined by future genetic analyses.
In 2003 the
ruddy cuckoo-dove (
Macropygia emiliana) of
Brunei,
Indonesia, and
Malaysia was split from the slender-billed cuckoo-dove (Dickinson, 2003).
In 2016 the slender-billed cuckoo-dove was split into the following species:
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