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Green-billed Malkoha




  Name Green-billed Malkoha
  Regnum Animal ia
  Phylum Chordata
  Classis Aves
  Ordo Cuculiformes
  Familia Cuculidae
  Genus '' Phaenicophaeus ''
  Species '''''P tristis'''''
  Binomial ''Phaenicophaeus tristis''
  Binomial Authority ( Lesson , 1830)


The Green-billed Malkoha ''Phaenicophaeus tristis'' is a species of non-parasitic Cuckoo found in peninsular India . The birds are waxy bluish black with a long graduated tail with white tips to the tail feathers. The bill is prominent and curved. These birds are found in dry scrub and thin forests.