284 MELIPHAGID^. 



2. Promerops gurneyi. 



Promerops cafer, Gurney, Ibis, 1862, p. 27 {nee Linn?). 

 Promerops gurneyi, J. Verr. P. Z. S. 1871, p. 13-5, pi. 8; Barratt, 

 Ibis, 1876, p. 202; Shelley, Monogr. Nect. p. 381. 



Like P. cafer, but with the crown of the head, sides of neck, fore 

 neck, and chest rich rufous or rusty red. Culmen 1-3 inch, wing 3"8, 

 tail 7 (or more?), tarsus 0-85. 



Hah. Natal and the Transvaal. 



«. Ad. sk. Natal (FerreaM.r). R. B. Sharpe, Esq. 



(Type of species.) 

 b. i\d. sk. Near Lydenburg. F. Barratt, Esq. [C.]. 



16. MOHO. 



Type. 



Gracula, Merrem, Av. Icon. p. 7, pi. 2 (1786). 



Moho, Less. Traite d'Orn. i. p. 302 (1831) M. nobilis. 



Acrulocercus, Cah. Wiegm. Arch.f. Naturg. 1847, p. 327. . M. nobilis. 



Mohoa, Beichenb. Sijst.' Av. pi. 41 (1850) M. nobilis. 



Bill strongly curved and longer than the rest of the head. 

 Nostrils operculated, not covered with feathers. First primary- 

 half the length of the second. Tip of wing formed by the 

 third to sixth primaries. Secondaries three fourths the length of 

 the wing. Tail much graduated, pointed and soft, a little longer 

 than the wings. Tarsus long, the scales fused with each other. 

 Plumage black, also the inner webs of the quills. Large yellow 

 pectoral tufts as in the Nectariniidce. 



Range. Sandwich Islands. 



1. Moho nobilis. 



Yellow-tufted Bee-eater, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 683, no. 18 (1782). 



Gracula nobilis, Ilerrem, Av. Icon. p. 8, pi. 2 (1788). 



Merops uiger, Gm. S. JV. i. p. 465 (1788). 



Merops fasciculatus, Lath. Ind. Oni. i. p. 275, no. 19 (1790). 



Melliphaga fasciculata, Temm. PI. Col. 471. 



Moho fasciculatus, Less. Traite d'Orn. i. p. 302. 



Acrulocercus niger, Cab. Wiegm. Arch.f. Naturg. 1847, p. 327. 



Moho niger, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 96, pi. 33. fig. 2 (1847). 



Ptiloturus fasciculatus, Peale, U. S. Expl. Exp. 1848. 



Mohoa fasciculata, Beichenb. Syst. Av. pi. 41 (1852), p. 149; id. 



Handb. Merojmice, p. 333, pi. 604. 

 Epimachus paciticus, Licht. Nomencl. p. 54 (1854). 

 Mohoa braccata, Cassin, Proc. Ac. Phil. vii. 1855, p 440 ; id. U. S. 



Expl. Exp. 1858, p. 172 ; Pelzehi, Ibis, 1873, p. 21 ; 8cl. Ibis, 1879, 



p. 92. 

 Moho braccata. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 114, no. 1411. 

 Moho nobilis. Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 114, no. 1409 ; Scl. Ibis, 1871, 



pp. 358, 360. 

 Mohoa nobilis, Cassin, Pr. Ac. Philad. vii. 1855, p. 440 ; v. Pelz. 



J. f. 0. 1872, p. 25; Scl. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 347; id. Ibis, 1879, 



p. 92. 



