Hawaii Mamo Feathers Are Like Gold Necklaces on Magnum’s Die He Said

Summary: Hawaii mamo feathers are like gold necklaces on Magnum’s Die He Said Nov. 12, 2018, re-aired Sept. 6, 2019, in affirming accomplishment and admiration.

Hawaiian mamo (Drepanis pacifica); 1893 illustration by Dutch bird illustrator Johannes Gerardus Keulemans (June 8, 1842-March 29, 1912), in W. Rothschild's The Avifauna of Laysan (August 1893, November 1893, December 1900): Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr

Hawaii mamo feathers are like gold necklaces on Magnum’s Die He Said crime action drama television series episode Nov. 11, 2018, re-aired Sept. 6, 2019, in affirming one’s accomplishment and another’s admiration.

Director Peter Weller and writer Joe Gazzam begin Season One's eighth episode with private investigator Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez) beachcombing Robin’s Nest for a gold necklace. Robin’s Nest curator Teuila Tuileta (Amy Hill), called Kumu (from Hawaiian kumu, “teacher”), coordinates the careful coastal combing conducted by Magnum and Juliet Higgins (Perdita Weeks). Magnum does double duty in discovering a dying client’s missing brother and the necklace for Juliet, Robin’s Nest majordomo (from Latin maior, “main” and domus, “household”).

Bone marrow from Bobby Malua (Karl Yune) to William (C.S. Lee) and gold jewelry from “R” to Juliet express emotions perhaps equivalent to Hawaii mamo feathers.

Fringillidae (from Latin fringilla, "small bird [chaffinch? robin?]" in classical contexts, "finch" in New Latin contexts) true finch family members favor blue-white eggs sparsely, variably featured.

Physically and sexually mature females gather in nesting groups with other mothers-to-be on shrub and tree branches where they get together cup-shaped, self-made, substantial, well-made nests. They hatch, with fathers-to-be helping with food-harvesing, downy chicks with red mouths and white-yellow gape flanges from eggs more purple- and red-marked toward their larger ends. The conical, sharp-edged, stout bills of true finches and their Carduelinae (from Latin carduelis, "goldfinch, thistlefinch") subfamily members imply cracking nut and seed cases before ingesting.

Male Hawaii mamo honeycreepers, judged taxonomically by Johann Friedrich Gmelin (Aug. 8, 1748-Nov. 1, 1804), journey to family nursery nests with regurgitated nuts and seeds.

The Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle (National Museum of Natural History) in Paris, France, keeps two black-headed, black-crowned, black-eyed, black-throated juvenile unstuffed skins with pale-based black bills.

Female and male juveniles, both with black lower backs, logged brown cheeks, napes and sides of heads and black-brown superciliaries and sides of necks and bodies. Both juvenile genders logged brown cheeks, napes and sides of heads; black-brown eyebrow-like superciliaries and sides of necks and bodies; and black-and-yellow lower backs and shoulders. They manifested yellow center-body, lower-body and undertail-covert feathers; white-based yellow thighs; brown-gray undertail, primary and secondary feathers; black-brown upperwings; black-brown, off-white primary-coverts; and yellow-edged off-white underwings. They netted 1.44- to 1.52-inch (36.6- to 38.6-millimeter) nostril-tip, 1.61- to 1.71-inch (41- to 43.4-millimeter) upper-bill ridge culmen, 3.78- to 3.84-inch (96 to 97.4-millimeter) wing lengths.

Juvenile Hawaii mamo honeycreepers obtained 2.10-inch (53.4-millimeter) tail, 1.14- to 1.32-inch (29- to 33.4-millimeter) foot-lower leg tarsus (from Greek ταρσός, “flat drying-frame”), 5.51-inch (140-millimeter) body lengths.

Physical and sexual maturity presents average 8.03-inch (204-millimeter) body, 4.24-inch (107.8-millimeter) wing, 2.91-inch (74-millimeter) tail, 1.73-inch (44-millimeter) culmen, 1.15-inch (29.2-millimeter) tarsus and 1.14-inch (29-millimeter) bill-tailtip lengths.

Maturity queues black, down-curved, 0.26-inch- (6.7-millimeter-) deep, 0.20-inch- (5.1-millimeter-) wide, 3-inch- (76.2-millimeter-) long bills; black-brown irises, legs; yellow lower backs, rumps, uppertail-coverts, undertails, thighs; white-yellow underwing-coverts. It realizes yellow-edged black wings, white primary-coverts, white-centered black quills, white-spotted black-brown central flight-feathers and black-brown-gray primaries, secondaries and tertials in semi-dry, semi-wet, wet lowland rainforests. July 1898 last saw cuckoo-styled, plaintive-whistling, smooth-moving fliers amid hāhā (Cyanea), hapu’u (Cibotium), loulu (Pritchardia), ‘ōhi’a lehua (Metrosideros) trees from sea level through 1,000-foot (304.8-meter) altitudes.

Hawaii mamo honeycreepers, Drepanis pacifica (from Greek δρεπανίς, “sickle” and Latin pācifica, “Pacifican”) taxonomically, unlike Juliet’s gold necklace, took to higher-altitude terrains or turned up extinct.

Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez), Bobby Malua (Karl Yune) and "Rick" Wright (Zachary Knighton) in Magnum PI's Die He Said (season 1 episode 8): What2Vue @What2Vue, via Twitter Nov. 3, 2018

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Hawaiian mamo (Drepanis pacifica); 1893 illustration by Dutch bird illustrator Johannes Gerardus Keulemans (June 8, 1842-March 29, 1912), in W. Rothschild's The Avifauna of Laysan (August 1893, November 1893, December 1900): Biodiversity Heritage Library (BioDivLibrary), Public Domain, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/biodivlibrary/50436417138/;
Public Domain, via Biodiversity Heritage Library @ https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48126578;
Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Drepanis_pacifica-Keulemans.jpg

Thomas Magnum (Jay Hernandez), Bobby Malua (Karl Yune) and "Rick" Wright (Zachary Knighton) in Magnum PI's Die He Said (season 1 episode 8): What2Vue @What2Vue, via Twitter Nov. 3, 2018, @ https://twitter.com/What2Vue/status/1058778049741799424

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