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birds, having accompanied Mr. Palmer on his expedition through 
the group, the fact that he did not find the Hoa added great 
weight to Mr. Meyer’s opinion that since 1894 the bird had be- 
come extinct. 
After spending three weeks in the woods about Pelekunu, 
having had the advantage of Mr. Perkins’ notes, and Mr. Munro’s 
experience, I left the Kamoku camp satisfied that there was 
searcely a hope of finding even a chance specimen in that section. 
It seemed certain too, that unless the birds could be found in some 
one of two or three similar localities on the island, there could be 
but little doubt but that it had vanished from the Hawaiian forests 
forever. During the next ten days especially devoted toa search for 
the Hoa and the Oo, in the Halawa mountains—in a section prob- 
ably never before hunted over, or perhaps never even visited by 
white men—under forest and climatic conditions suited to both 
species, I was unable to locate either of them, and quit the region 
thoroughly discouraged and disheartened. 
The next attempt was made at Moanuiranch. Since it was 
here, and here only, that I secured specimens, a fuller account of 
the experiences of this part of the expedition will be of interest, 
as showing some of the difficulties attending the work in these 
mountains, as well as the character of the country in which a few 
Hoa still survive. After settling my camp at the Moanui moun- 
tain house on the morning of May 30, I set off alone up Honoulu- 
wai valley, that being regarded by Mr. Tollefson and his men at 
the ranch, as probably the most feasible way of getting back into 
the mountains. No one, to their knowledge, had reached the head 
of the stream; in fact, the mountainous part of the ranch was 
terra incognita to the owner of the ranch, and everyone else, for 
its back boundaries had never been surveyed, or even visited. 
By picking my way over the boulders in the bed of the stream and 
working around the small waterfalls, I made fairly rapid progress 
until late in the afternoon, when I came ona small waterfall where 
the stream poured over a steep ledge, twenty-five feet or more in 
height. On either side of the stream the solid rock ran up almost 
perpendicularly for three or four hundred feet. The only way to 
proceed seemed either to turn back and leave the stream entirely, or 
to scale the falls itself. Judging by the character of the country and 
similar experiences elsewhere, it seemed probable that the stream 
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