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The unusual name given to the species came from a reporter's misquoting of ornithologist
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species known to have existed. The King Kong grosbeak was described from
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Index

Giant grosbeak
Holocene
Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Chordata
Aves
Passeriformes
Fringillidae
Carduelinae
Chloridops
Binomial name
James
Olson
prehistoric
Hawaiian honeycreeper
endemic
Hawaiʻi
Chloridops
fossils
Barber's Point
Oʻahu
Rhodacanthis
Storrs L. Olson
King Kong
"Descriptions of Thirty-Two New Species of Birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part II. Passeriformes"
American Ornithologists' Union
doi
10.2307/40166713

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