Its food consists of the seeds of the fruit of the aaka (Myoporum sandwicense) (bastard sandal-tree, and probably in other seasons of those of the sandalwood tree), and as these are very minute, its whole time seems to be taken up in cracking the extremely hard shells of this fruit, for which its extraordinarily powerful beak and heavy head have been developed.
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I never heard it sing (once mistook the young Rhodacanthis -Greater Koa Finch song for that of Chloridops), but my boy informed me that he had heard it once, and its song was not like that of Rhodocanthis.
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