7634

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7634
• Author: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
• Title: Threatened Wildlife of the United States.
• USFW Year: 1973.
• USFW - Doc Type: Washington, D.C.
• Copyright Material: NO

Greater Koafinch (Hopue) , Psittirostra ap lmeri . Hawaii Island, Hawaii . Extinct about
1896. Reasons--alteration of environment by modern man, probable avian disease
from introduced birds and spread by introduced mosquitoes . Predation by introduced
rats, cats, and mongooses hypothetical.
Lesser or Yellow-headed Koafinch, Psittirostra flaviceps. Hawaii Island, Hawaii. Extinct
about 1891. Reasons--alteration of environment by modern man, probable avian
disease from introduced birds and spread by introduced mosquitoes . Predation by
introduced rats, cats, and mongooses hypothetical.
Grosbeakfinch or Konafinch, Psittirostra kona. Hawaii Island, Hawaii. Extinct in 1894.
Reasons--alteration of environment by modern man, probable avian disease from
introduced birds and spread by introduced mosquitoes. Predation by introduced rats,
cats, and mongooses hypothetical.
EXTINCT MAMMALS
Gull Island Vole, Microtus nesophilus. Gull Island, Long Island Sound, New York.
Extinct in 1898.
Amargosa Meadow Vole, Microtus californicus scirpensis. California. Extinct in 1917.
Plains Wolf , Canis lupus nubilus . Great Plains . Extinct in 1926 .
Sea Mink, Mustela macrodon. New England coast. Extinct in 1890.
Ea elis concolor cou uar . Eastern Uni a ed
Steller's Sea Cow, Hydrodamalis stelleri. North Pacific, Bering Sea. Extinct in 1768.
Eastern Elk, Cervus canadensis canadensis . United States east of Great Plains .
Extinct in 1880.
Merriam Elk, Cervus merriami. Arizona. Extinct in 1900.
Badlands Bighorn, Ovis canadensis auduboni. North and South Dakota. Extinct in 1910.
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