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ACBULOCEBCUS 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. /3, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 398 (1788). 

 Merops niger, Gmelin, torn. cit. p. 465 (1788). 



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

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

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

 ?Nectarina [sic] niger, Bloxam, Voy. ' Blonde, 5 p. 249 (1826). 



Meliphaga fasciculata, Temminck & Laugier, Rec. d'Ois. Livr. 79, PL Col. 471 (1829). 

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



iii. p. 49 (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). 

 Ptiloiurus 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; 



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. 



Id. p. 9 (1859) ; Dole, Proc. Boston N. H. Soc. 1869, p. 296 ; 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. 



This, the Royal Bird of modern times, is perhaps the best known of any species to 

 both the natives and foreign residents in the islands. It is doubtful whether in ancient 

 days it was from the yellow feathers that grow beneath its wings, or from the still 

 more beautiful yellow upper tail-coverts of the now extinct Drepanis pacifica, that 

 the state robes of kings and chiefs were wrought. It was the privilege of those 

 classes alone to wear them ; and it cannot be denied that they formed a becoming 

 apparel, as magnificent and beautiful as anything that the triumphs of civilized art can 

 now produce. The fine statue of King Kamehameha I., which stands in front of the 

 Government House in Honolulu, represents the great conqueror who first consolidated 



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