

existed. On the other hand, we know that Dixon's ship anchored on three occasions, 

 and for a considerable time, in King George's Bay, on the south side of Oahu (Woahoo 

 or Whahoo as it is spelt in his book). The ' Queen Charlotte ' lay there from the 1st 

 to the 5th of June, and from the 30th of November to the 20th December, 1786, and 

 again from the 10th to the 13th of September, 1787, so that the chance is greatly in 

 favour of that being the locality where this species was procured. He could hardly 

 have got it in Attoui (Kauai) or Oneehow (Niihau), for the former is the home of the 

 allied A. braccatus ; nor in Eanai (Lanai) or Morotai (Molokai), for there the species 

 would in all probability be A. bishopi. Accordingly the inference that Oahu was the 

 real habitat of A. apicalis is so strong as, accompanied by the positive evidence of 

 Deppe, to be irresistible ; and since it is known that the ' Blonde ' also made a long 

 stay at Honolulu, the specimen brought home by Byron, and now in the British 

 Museum — being the third now there, — may well have been obtained thence. 



Though no success attended the indefatigable explorations of Mr. Rothschild's 

 collectors, and Mr. Perkins has not yet been more fortunate, I am of opinion that the 

 bird still exists, and will be rediscovered hereafter ; but the disappearance of several 

 other species from Oahu tells, I confess, against this hopeful view. If the bird be 

 extinct, the cause is probably the destruction of so much of the ancient forest on that 

 island. According to Judge Dole, the subject of the present notice shares with the 

 other members of the genus the name O-o, and the habits and food are similar ; but 

 the " Moho apicalis " of his last paper is not this bird, but Drepanis pacifica, and 

 should have been cited in the synonymy of that species. 



Description (from Gould). — "General plumage sooty-black; tail brown, all but the 

 two middle feathers largely tipped with white ; the two central feathers somewhat 

 narrower than the others, and gradually diminishing in the apical third of their length 

 into fine hair-like or filamentous upturned points; axillae or under surface of the 

 shoulder white ; flanks and under tail-coverts bright yellow ; bill and legs black. 



"Total length 12 inches, bill 1±, wing 4f, tail 6f, tarsi 1\. 



" The plumage of the female is in every respect similar to that of the male; but, as 

 in the Honey-eaters of Australia generally, particularly amongst the members of the 

 genus Ptilotis, the body is fully a fourth less in size." 



The striated appearance of the breast of A. apicalis, a character found in so many 

 of the Meliphagidce, though hardly perceptible in its congener A. nobilis, is especially 

 noticeable. 



Von Pelzeln remarked that the edges of the mandibles in both male and female 

 were partially serrated, as Eeichenbach stated to be the case in M. nobilis ; and that the 

 end of the tongue was clearly brush-shaped in the female. 



The figure is from one of the specimens in the British Museum. 



The species of Acrolocercus, if one there was, inhabiting Maui has yet to be ascer- 

 tained (Feb. 1894). 



