Ula-ai-hawane

SCI Name:  Ciridops anna
Protonym:  Fringilla anna HawaiianAlmanacAnnual(1879) -1879 p.49
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Fringillidae / Ciridops
Taxonomy Code:  ulahaw
Type Locality:  Hawaii.
Author:  Dole
Publish Year:  1878
IUCN Status:  Extinct

DEFINITIONS

CIRIDOPS
‡ (Fringillidae; Ϯ Ula-ai-hawane C. anna) Specific name Emberiza ciris Linnaeus, 1758; Gr. ωψ ōps, ωπος ōpos  appearance (pace Pratt 2005: "Latin Ciridops most often translated as 'shining face', but ciris also was a bird into which the mythological Scylla was transformed, and ops can mean appearance or aspect, so the name probably was intended to mean 'looking like Scylla's ciris'.); “This was described by Judge Dole under the name of "Fringilla anna," but, of course, is no true Fringilla. Mr. Wilson brought home but a single specimen, which he owed to the kindness of the Hon. C. R. Bishop, it having been formerly in the Mills Collection; and, I believe, will establish for it a new genus, Ciridops — so named because its bright coloration recalls the well known Emberiza ciris of Linnaeus, the Painted Bunting of authors, or ‘Nonpareil’ of bird dealers. It is supposed to be now extinct, but it was a truly native species” (Newton 1892); "Ciridops Newton, 1892, Nature, 45, p. 469. Type, by monotypy, Fringilla anna Dole." (Greenway in Peters, 1968, XIV, p. 96).
Var. Cirridops.

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● Anna Debelle Princesse d’Essling and Duchesse de Rivoli (1802-1887) Chief Lady-in-Waiting to the Empress Eugénie, and wife of French collector François Victor Masséna 3rd Prince d’Essling and 2nd Duc de Rivoli (1799-1863) (Calypte).
● Anna Prentice Dole née Cate (1842-1918) wife of Judge Sanford B. Dole, President of the Hawaiian Republic 1893-1898 (‡Ciridops).
● Françoise Anna Masséna d'Essling et de Rivoli (1824-1902) daughter of French collector François Victor Masséna 3rd Prince d’Essling and 2nd Duc de Rivoli (syn. Prosopeia tabuensis).