Moho Bishopi Bird

Bishop\'s Oo / Moho bishopi

Moho Bishopi Bird

English Name:  Bishop's Oo
Latin Name:  Moho bishopi
Protonym:  Acrulocercus bishopi Bull.Br.Orn.Club 1 p.41
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Mohoidae / Moho
Taxonomy Code:  bisoo
Type Locality:  Molokai Island.
Author:  Rothschild
Publish Year:  1893
IUCN Status:  Extinct

DEFINITIONS

MOHO
‡ (Mohoidae; Ϯ Hawaii Oo M. nobilis) Hawaiian onomatopoeic name ‘ō‘ō for the distinctive oos; "4. Les MOHOS; Moho.  Bec de la longueur de la tête, fort, recourbé, pointu, à commissure bordée, à bords rentrés. Narines ovales, pointues, longitudinales, ouvertes; plumes du front écailleuses; ailes moyennes, à troisième, quatrième, cinquième rémiges les plus longues. Queue étagée, à rectrices médiocres, pointues; tarses alongé, scutellés; doigt du milieu peu prolongé au-delà des latéraux.  PHILÉDON MOHO; Merops fasciculatus, Lath.  Gracula nobilis, Merrem, Av. ic., fasc. I, pl. 2; Melliphaga fasciculata, Temm., pl. 471." (Vieillot 1831); "Moho Lesson, 1831, Traité Orn., p. 302. Type, by monotypy, Merops fasciculatus Latham = Gracula nobilis Merrem." (Salomonsen in Peters 1967, XII, 424). The Hawaii Oo (or ‘Ō‘ō  in Hawaiian orthography) was last seen in 1934. Recent work indicates that these birds were allied to the silky-flycatchers Ptiliogonatidae and waxwings Bombycillidae.
Var. Mohoa.
Synon. Acrulocercus, Mohohina, Mohornis, Pseudomoho.

bishopi
● Nathaniel Holmes Bishop (1837-1902) US explorer, founder of American Canoe Association 1880 (Catharopeza).
Charles Reed Bishop (1822-1915) US banker, philanthropist, founder of Bernice Pauahi Mus. 1889, husband to Princess Bernice Pauahi Paki of Hawaii (‡Moho).