Ciridops anna Dole, 1879:49 (1878?)
Ula-ai-hawane
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Synonym/s: Fringilla anna Dole, 1879:49
Conservation Status
Extinct
Last record: 20 February 1892 (1937?)
IUCN RedList status: Extinct
Distribution
Hawaii (& Molokai?), Hawaiian Islands, USA
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
5 specimens are known, two of which are in the MCZ collection, Harvard. (citation?)
Specimens:
MCZ 19095 ("bones removed from skin", James & Olson, 1991:27)
BMNH 1939.12.9.58 ("bones removed from alcoholic trunk specimen", James & Olson, 1991:27)
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Dole, Sanford Ballard. (1879). List of birds of the Hawaiian Islands. Corrected for the Hawaiian Annual, with valuable additions, pp. 41-58. In: Hawaiian Almanac and Annual for 1879. Thomas G. Thrum. Honolulu, USA.
Other references:
Bangs, Outram. (1910). Unrecorded specimens of two rare Hawaiian birds. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 23: 67-70.
Banko, W.E. and Banko, P.C. 2009. Historic decline and extinction. In: Pratt, T.K., Atkinson, C.T., Banko, P.C., Jacobi, J.D. and Woodworth, B.L. (eds), Conservation Biology of Hawaiian Forest Birds: Implications for Island Avifauna, pp. 25-58. Yale University Press, New Haven.
BirdLife International. (2008). Ciridops anna. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. (http://www.iucnredlist.org). Downloaded on 05 October 2011.
BirdLife International. 2016. Ciridops anna. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2016: e.T22720840A94686158. https://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22720840A94686158.en. Accessed on 02 July 2022.
Bock, W. J. (1972). Morphology of the tongue apparatus of Ciridops anna (Drepanididae). Ibis 114: 61-78.
Brooks, T. 2000. Extinct species. In: BirdLife International (ed.), Threatened Birds of the World, pp. 701-708. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona and Cambridge, U.K.
Day, David. (1981). The Doomsday Book of Animals: A Natural History of Vanished Species. New York, N.Y.: The Viking Press.
Ehrlich, Paul R., Dobkin, David S. and Wheye, Darryl. (1992). Birds in Jeopardy: The Imperiled and Extinct Birds of the United States and Canada, Including Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 259 pp.
Elphick, Chris S., Roberts, David L. and Reed, J. Michael. (2010). Estimated dates of recent extinctions for North American and Hawaiian birds. Biological Conservation 143: 617-624.
Fuller, Errol. (1988). Extinct Birds. New York: Facts on File Publications. 256 pp.
Greenway James C. (1967). Extinct and Vanishing Birds of the World. American Committee for International Wild Life Protection, Special Publication no 13, 2nd edn. Dover Publications, New York.
del Hoyo, J., Collar, N.J., Christie, D.A., Elliott, A., Fishpool, L.D.C., Boesman, P. and Kirwan, G.M. 2016. HBW and BirdLife International Illustrated Checklist of the Birds of the World. Volume 2: Passerines. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, UK.
James, Helen F. (2004). The osteology and phylogeny of the Hawaiian finch radiation (Fringillidae: Drepanidini), including extinct taxa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141: 207-255, 17 figs.
James, Helen F. and Olson, Storrs L. (1991). Descriptions of Thirty-Two New Species of Birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part II. Passeriformes. Ornithological Monographs 46: 1-88.
Knox, Alan G. and Walters, Michael P. (1994). Extinct and endangered birds in the collections of The Natural History Museum. British Ornithologists' Club Occasional Publications 1: 1-292. [p. 256]
Munro, G. C. 1944. Birds of Hawai'i. Tongg Publishing Company, Honolulu.
Olson, Storrs L. (1992). William T. Brigham's Hawaiian Birds and a Possible Historical Record of Ciridops anna (Aves: Drepanidini) from Molokai. Pacific Science 46(4): 495-500.
Olson, Storrs L. (2012). History, Structure, Evolution, Behavior, Distribution, and Ecology of the Extinct Hawaiian Genus Ciridops (Fringillidae, Carduelini, Drepanidini). The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 124(4): 651-674.
Pratt, H. D. (2002). [Ula-ai-hawane (Ciridops anna)]. Auk 119(4): cover painting.
Pratt, H. D. (2005). The Hawaiian Honeycreepers. Oxford University Press. Oxford, United Kingdom.
Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild. (1907). Extinct birds: an attempt to write in one volume a short account of those birds which have become extinct in historical times, that is within the last six or seven hundred years: to which are added a few which still exist, but are on the verge of extinction. London: Hutchinson & Co. XXIX + 243 pp. [p. 41, pl. 4]
Sayol, Ferran, Steinbauer, Manuel J., Blackburn, Tim M., Antonelli, Alexandre and Faurby, Søren. (2020). Anthropogenic extinctions conceal widespread evolution of flightlessness in birds. Science Advances 6(49): eabb6095. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abb6095 [Supplementary Material (Data File S1)]
Tyrberg, Tommy. (2009). Holocene avian extinctions, pp. 63-106. In: Turvey, Samuel T. (ed.). Holocene Extinctions. Oxford, UK & New York, USA: Oxford University Press. xii + 352 pp.