:Wahi grosbeak

{{Short description|Extinct species of bird}}

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| fossil_range = Early Holocene

| genus = Chloridops

| species = wahi

| authority = James and Olson 1991

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The wahi grosbeak or O{{okina}}ahu grosbeak (Chloridops wahi) is a prehistoric species of Hawaiian honeycreeper. The wahi grosbeak was endemic to dry forests on the Hawaiian islands of Kaua{{okina}}i, O{{okina}}ahu, and Maui. Based on the thickness of its bill it fed on seeds easier to crack than those of the naio (Myoporum sandwicense), on which the Kona grosbeak fed. The species was already extinct when Europeans landed on the island. Being only known from fossils, its behavior and the exact reasons for its extinction are essentially unknown.{{cite book |first=H Douglas |last=Pratt |title=The Hawaiian Honeycreepers |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-19-854653-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h8cdPD-YsosC |page=212}} Its fossils have been found throughout the islands, but were present in higher concentrations in caves. The bird was smaller than the related King Kong grosbeak (C. regiskongi) by {{convert|2|in|cm}}. It had a total length of {{convert|9|in|cm}}.James, Helen F., & Olson, Storrs L. (1991). Descriptions of thirty-two new species of birds from the Hawaiian Islands: Part II. Passeriformes.Ornithological Monographs 46. The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington D.C.