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Raffle's malkoha
23 Sep, 2015. It is a species of cuckoo. Adult male rufous above, head rufous, tail black, finely barred grey and broadly tipped white; rufous throat and blueish eyelid and beak. Seen from a canopy walk on top of the canopy forest in discovery Center trails of Sepilok, Sabah.
Raffles's malkoha is a species of cuckoo. It was formerly often placed in "Phaenicophaeus" with the other malkohas, but it is a rather distinct species, with several autapomorphies and sexual dimorphism. It might not even be very closely related to the true malkohas, but form a very basal lineage of cuckoos; in any case, its placement in a monotypic genus "Rhinortha" is well warranted.
Similar species: Cuckoos
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Uploaded Apr 3, 2016. Captured Sep 23, 2015 01:24 in Jalan Sepilok, Sepilok, 90000 Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia.
