| Blue-faced malkoha | |
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| Blue-faced Malkoha from Mysore, Karnataka, India | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Cuculiformes |
| Family: | Cuculidae |
| Genus: | Phaenicophaeus |
| Species: | P. viridirostris
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| Binomial name | |
| Phaenicophaeus viridirostris (Jerdon, 1840)
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The blue-faced malkoha (Phaenicophaeus viridirostris) or small green-billed malkoha, is a non-parasitic cuckoo found in the scrub and deciduous forests of peninsular India and Sri Lanka. 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.
- ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Phaenicophaeus viridirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22684101A93014378. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22684101A93014378.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.