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The palila (Loxioides bailleui) is a critically endangered finch-billed species of Hawaiian honeycreeper. It has a golden-yellow head and breast, with a light belly, gray back, and greenish wings and tail. The bird has a close ecological relationship with the māmane tree (Sophora chrysophylla), and became endangered due to destruction of the trees and accompanying dry forests. The first specimen of the palila was collected in 1876 at the Greenwell Ranch on the Big Island by Pierre Étienne Théodore Ballieu (1828–1885), who was French consul in Hawai‘i from 1869 to 1878. The type specimen (No. 1876-645) is housed at the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris.
Usage examples of "palila".
Naydra was placid and biddable, Lenala was simply stupid, and Pandsala had a sidelong way of glancing at people which Palila thought might be a sign of slyness or intelligence or both.
Lady Surya's girls, Moria and Cipris, were near in age to Palila's elder daughters and competed with them for Roelstra's attention, just as Palila had with their mother until a slip on wet tiles by the bathing pool had cracked open Surya's blonde head.
Yet fond as he was of the daughters she had given himhis "little flowers," he called themand showing no signs of becoming bored with Palila, she knew that neither sentimentality about his children nor sensuality in her bed would be proof against a woman who could give him a son.
It was left to Palila to arrange the evening's ritual and make sure all the daughters dressed in mourning gray to honor their royal "cousin.
Palila sat with bowed head and folded hands in the front row, the daughters all around her.
Palila could sense them judging the daughters and wondering which of them would catch his fancy at the Rialla.
He sometimes missed the stimulation of several mistresses who all loathed each other, but the clashes between his daughters and Palila were nearly as amusing.
After his wife's death, the High Prince's search for a single male offspring had taken him through five mistresses -- all nobly born and all dead now, with the exception of Palila.