

ACKULOCERCUS NOBILIS. 



0-0. 



" Yellow-tufted Bee-eater," Latham, Gen. Synops. i. p. 683 (1782) ; Suppl. p. 120 (1787) ; Suppl. 2, 



p. 149 (1802). 

 ? "Moho/' Ellis, Narrat. Voy. Cook & Clerke, ii. p. 156 (1782). 

 ?"Hoohoo," King, Voy. Pacif. Ocean, iii. p. 119, partim (1784). 

 Gracula nobilis, Merrem, Beytr. besond. Gesch. Vogel, Heft i. p. 8, pi. ii.* (1784). 



„ longirostra, var. ft, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 398 (1788). 

 Merops niger, Gmelin, torn. cit. p. 465 (1788) ; Tiedemann, Anat. trad Naturgesch. Vog. ii. p. 431 



(1814). 

 „ fasciculalus, Latham, Ind. Orn. i. p. 275 (1790). 

 "Le Moho," Sonnini, Hist. Nat. Buffon, Ois. xviii. p. 286 (1802). 

 Philemon fasciculatus, Vieillot, Encycl. Method., Ornithol. p. 613 (1823). 

 ? Nectarina [sic] niger, Bloxam, Voy. 'Blonde/ p. 249 (1826). 



Meliphaga fasciculata, Temminck & Laugier, Bee. d'Ois. livr. 79, PL Col. 471* (1829). 

 "Philedon moho, Merops fasciculatus, Lath./' Lesson, Tr. d'Orn. p. 302 (1831) ; id. Compl. Buffon, 



ix. p. 149 (1837). 

 Acrulocercus niger, Cabanis, Arch. f. Naturgesch. xiii. p. 327 (1847) ; Sundevall, Tentam. p. 50 



(1872). 

 Moho niger, G. R. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 96 (1847) ; Bonaparte, Consp. Av. i. p. 394 (1850) ; Hartlaub, 



Arch. f. Naturgesch. 1852, i. p. 131; Dole, Proc. Boston Soc. N. H. 1869, p. 296. 

 Ptiloturus fasciculatus, Peale, U.S. Expl. Exped., Birds, p. 148 (1848). 



Mohoa fasciculata, Reichenbach, Handb. sp. Orn. p. 333, partim (1853), tab. 614. fig. 4098*. 

 „ nobilis, Cassin, Proc. Acad. N. S. Philad. 1855, p. 439; Sclater, Ibis, 1871, pp. 358, 360; 



id. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1878, p. 347; Von Pelzeln, Journ. f. Orn. 1872, p. 25. 

 Moho nobilis, Cassin, U.S. Expl. Exped., Mamm. & Orn. p. 170 (1858) ; G. R. Gray, Cat. B. Trop. 



Isl. p. 9 (1859); Dole, Hawaiian Alman. 1879, p. 46; Gadow, Cat. B. Br. Mus. ix. p. 284, 

 partim (1884); Stejneger, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 101. 

 Acrulocercus nobilis, Scott Wilson, Ibis, 1890, p. 177. 



* Figurce notabiles. 



This bird, with its decidedly Meliphagine affinities, was first described by Latham from 

 the Leverian Museum, under the name of the " Yellow-tufted Bee-eater," which led to 

 its inclusion by Gmelin in the genus Merops. The original specimens were received 

 from the companions of Cook on his third voyage, when the Sandwich Islands were 

 discovered and twice visited ; but the number of these and the circumstances of their 

 capture are quite unknown. From the outset the native name was entirely misappre- 

 hended by the unrefined ears of the early travellers, who wrote it variously Mo-ho, 



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