Species profile
Kona Grosbeak
Chloridops kona
Quick answer
Chloridops kona S. B. Wilson, 1888 MZUT AV 11660; mount; adult male; USA, Hawaii, ‘ Kona district’, slopes of Mauna Loa Volcano at 1,200 m, September 1892; collected by R. C. L. Perkins, and donated by Alfred Newton in 1901 or 1903. Remarks. — Salvadori (1915) reported that in 1901 or 1903, due to the interest of his friend Alfred Newton, the Torino museum received a gift of seven specimens (actually eight) collected in the ‘ Sandwich Islands’. All of these were collected by Robert Cyril Layton Perkins (1866 – 1955) of Cambridge University during an expedition to Hawaii financed by the Royal Society of London and the British Association for the Advancement of Science. MZUT AV 11660 was taken during the first period that Perkins spent in Hawaii, between March 1892 and September 1894 (Perkins 1893, Liebherr & Polhemus 1997). Torino is not listed among those institutions that hold specimens of this species; moreover, the collection date of MZUT AV 11660 (September 1892) coincides with that of the last specimen known (Hume & Walters 2012).
- Scientific name
- Chloridops kona
- Family
- Fringillidae
- Order
- Passeriformes
- Genus
- Chloridops
- Conservation status
- Extinct
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