John Zorn named an album after this guy. They were a kind of honeyeater. Not much is known about them. Their plumage was used in robes for the Hawaiian nobility. They were native to O‘ahu and disappeared around 1837.
Thirty percent of all known recently extinct birds in the world were originally from Hawaii. 70 percent of all native bird species in the state are extinct. The primary threats to Hawaiian birds are exotic species: predators such as feral cats and rats; herbivores such as goats and pigs that degrade native habitat; diseases such as avian malaria and pox transmitted by non-native mosquitoes; and plants that displace native species and reduce habitat quality for native birds. Climate change may further reduce or even eliminate mosquito-free – and therefore disease-free – upland habitat as temperatures rise.