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The species Oahu Alauahio is possibly extinct.

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Paroreomyza maculata

Alternative name(s): Oahu Creeper

[edit] Identification

11 cm. Male yellow below, olive-green above with dark lores fading into eye-stripe and distinct yellow superciliary. Female greenish-grey above, pale yellowish-white below, with two prominent, pale wing-bars, pale lores and dark line behind eye only.

[edit] Distribution

Endemic to O'ahu in Hawaii.

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[edit] Behaviour

It is believed that the diet included carabid beetles. One nest with two eggs was collected in late January 1901.

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