Hawai'i 'amakihi, common 'amakihi (Chlorodrepanis virens)

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Subject:	Hawai'i 'amakihi, common 'amakihi (Chlorodrepanis virens)
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Hawai'i 'amakihi, common 'amakihi (Chlorodrepanis virens)

Description
English: Himatione virens from The Birds of the Sandwich Islands
Himatione virens (= Chlorodrepanis virens) = Chlorodrepanis virens virens
Date 1890-99
Source The Birds of the Sandwich Islands
Author Frederick William Frohawk
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Himatione_Virens_AvesHawaiienses00Wils_0094.jpg

The Hawaiʻi ʻamakihi (Chlorodrepanis virens), also known as the common ʻamakihi, is a species of Hawaiian honeycreeper. The Hawaiʻi ʻamakihi was formerly placed in the genus Hemignathus but was assigned to the genus Chlorodrepanis based on the phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences. It is found on the Big Island, Maui, and Molokaʻi in Hawaii. Order: Passeriformes, Family: Fringillidae, Subfamily: Carduelinae, Species: Chlorodrepanis virens (Gmelin J.F., 1851), Synonyms: Hemignathus virens.

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