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238:. It has a waxy, dark, blue-grey plumage on its upperparts and has a long tail with graduated white-tipped feathers. The throat and chin are dark with spiny pale feathers that are branched. The lower belly is a dull creamy to rufous colour. The bill is apple green, and a naked patch of blue skin surrounds the eye. The sexes are alike. The blue-faced malkoha is a bird of open forests and scrub jungle.
378:. A study of the aortic arches of birds found that this species has a peculiar modification in the two dorsal carotids are reduced to paired ligaments "ligamenti ottleyi" which enter the hypapophysial canal. The genus is placed in the subfamily Phaenicophaeinae.
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A largish species at 39 cm, its back and head are dark grey with an oily green or blue gloss, and the dark tail has graduated feathers tipped with white. The belly is pale ochre to grey. The feathers of the chin and throat are branched (unlike in
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when flushed. Young birds have dull and non glossy upperparts and some brown feathers in their wing.
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Like all cuckoos, malkohas have zygodactyle feet, two toes pointing forward and two to the back.
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Pakistan. Volume 3. Stone Curlews to Owls
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British India, including Ceylon and Burma. Birds. Volume III
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506:(2 ed.). Delhi: Oxford University Press. pp. 233–234.
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The blue-faced malkoha is found in peninsular India south of
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but that referred to a female of the already described
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found in the scrub and deciduous forests of peninsular
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was subsequently subsumed into the older genus name
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649:"Catalogue of the Birds of the Peninsula of India"
440:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22684101A93014378.en
758:Proceedings of the United States National Museum
735:Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
676:Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London
523:. London: Taylor and Francis. pp. 231–232.
344:described a species from Malaya that he called
785:"The distribution of the Greenbilled Malkoha (
630:Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
607:Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
540:Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society
283:A painting of the blue-faced malkoha by Lady
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731:"On the Cuculidae of the Ethiopian Region"
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291:The blue-faced malkoha takes a variety of
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303:. It usually forages in the undergrowth.
712:Cabanis, Jean; Heine, Ferdinand (1863).
695:Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal
653:Madras Journal of Literature and Science
470:. Vol. 1. London. pp. 258–259.
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354:. The species is included in the genus
502:Ali, Salim; Ripley, S. Dillon (1981).
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603:"The Birds of North Kanara. Part II"
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315:The nostril shapes used to separate
1038:IUCN Red List least concern species
426:IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
358:although it was formerly placed in
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330:ghats. He placed it in the genus
770:10.5479/si.00963801.104-3346.525
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718:. Vol. 4. pp. 58–59.
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1015:Phaenicophaeus-viridirostris
851:Phaenicophaeus viridirostris
821:Phaenicophaeus viridirostris
419:Phaenicophaeus viridirostris
346:Phaenicophaeus viridirostris
219:Phaenicophaeus viridirostris
195:Phaenicophaeus viridirostris
557:Baker, E.C. Stuart (1927).
351:Phaenicophaeus chlorophaeus
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783:Abdulali, Humayun (1953).
624:Rajagopalan, P.K. (1972).
534:Abdulali, Humayun (1971).
464:Legge, W. Vincent (1880).
224:small green-billed malkoha
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86:Scientific classification
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787:Rhopodytes viridirostris
752:Glenny, Fred H. (1955).
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578:Rhopodytes viridirostris
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38:Blue-faced Malkoha from
1058:Birds described in 1840
517:Blanford, W.T. (1895).
274:Haemaphysalis spinigera
689:Blyth, Edward (1847).
574:Biddulph,C.H. (1936).
336:but saw affinities to
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258:Phaenicophaeus tristis
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729:Sharpe, R.B. (1873).
647:Jerdon, T.C. (1840).
601:Davidson, J. (1898).
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177:P. viridirostris
670:Eyton, T.C. (1839).
56:Conservation status
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340:. A year earlier
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301:vertebrates
242:Description
1032:Categories
1010:Xeno-canto
741:: 578–624.
701:: 428–476.
678:: 100–107.
659:: 207–239.
546:: 756–772.
402:References
372:Rhopodytes
364:Rhopodytes
360:Rhopodytes
342:T.C. Eyton
317:Rhopodytes
299:and small
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236:Sri Lanka
171:Species:
153:Cuculidae
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103:Eukaryota
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119:Phylum:
113:Animalia
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431:2016
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