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unusual facts about Rhodacanthis



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Kona Grosbeak

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.

Scissor-billed Koa Finch

Of the four species in the genus Rhodacanthis, the Scissor-billed Koa Finch and the Primitive Koa Finch became extinct before the arrival of the first Europeans to Hawaii in 1778.


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