kākāwahie, Moloka'i creeper, (Paroreomyza flammea)

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Subject:	kākāwahie, Moloka'i creeper, (Paroreomyza flammea)
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Description
Moloka'i Creeper (Paroreomyza flammea) depiction by John Gerrard Keulemans from 'Avifauna of Laysan' by Lionel Walter Rothschild from the years 1893 to 1900. by courtesy of Barbara Ward Grubb / Triptych Collections
Above: adult male and female. Below: juvenile male and female
Date 1893
Source http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/nhrarebooks/rothschild/CF/description-search-results-all.cfm
Author John Gerrard Keulemans (1842–1912)
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paroreomyza.flammea.jpg

The kākāwahie or Molokaʻi creeper, (Paroreomyza flammea) was a species of Hawaiian honeycreeper. It is extinct, but was found on the Hawaiian island of Molokaʻi in Hawaii. The binomial name of this species, Paroreomyza flammea, refers to its appearance being to similar to that of a ball of fire as it flit from tree to tree in search of invertebrates. Order: Passeriformes, Family: Fringillidae, Species: Paroreomyza flammea (Wilson, 1889).

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