Kauai Oo

Kauai Oo / Moho braccatus

Kauai Oo

Here the details of the Kauai Oo named bird below:

SCI Name:  Moho braccatus
Protonym:  Mohoa braccata Proc.Acad.Nat.Sci.Philadelphia 7 p.440
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Mohoidae /
Taxonomy Code:  kauoo
Type Locality:  Sandwich Islands [= Kauai Island] .
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Publish Year:  1855
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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.

bracatus / braccata / braccatus
L. bracatus  trousered, wearing trousers  < bracae  breeches, trousers.