Chloridops kona

Ghiraldi, Luca & Aimassi, Giorgio, 2019, Extinct and endangered (‘ E & E’) birds in the ornithological collection of the Museum of Zoology of Torino University, Italy, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 139 (1), pp. 28-45 : 33

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.25226/bboc.v139i1.2019.a2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11637516
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039387EB-FFCC-F80D-FF10-FD82FE27FC7D
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Chloridops kona
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KONA GROSBEAK Chloridops kona View in CoL

Chloridops kona S. B. Wilson, 1888

MZUT AV11660 View Materials ; 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 AV11660 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 AV11660 (September 1892) coincides with that of the last specimen known ( Hume & Walters 2012).