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MOHO APICALIS GOULD. 



(Plate 4a, 1.) 



" Yellow-tufted Bee-eater" (non Latham!), Dixon, Voyage round the World, p. 357, plate (1789). 

 Moho apicalis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. London i860, p. 381 (? Hawaii). 

 Acrulocercus apicalis Wilson & Evans, Av. Hawaii, pt. V text and plate (1894). 

 Moho apicalis Rothschild, Avif. Laysan, etc., p. 223 and plate (1900). 



HIS rarest species of the Mohos formerly inhabited the island of Oahu, 



JL where specimens were obtained in 1837, near Enero, by Herr Deppe. 

 The localities of the specimens figured by Dixon and that of the type 

 of Gould are uncertain, but they must have been obtained on Oahu. Since 

 1837 we have no further traces of Moho apicalis. 



The only specimens known are those in Berlin, collected by Deppe, 

 two in the British Museum, and one in my Museum at Tring. The latter, 

 which I obtained in exchange from the British Museum, is the one brought 

 home from the Sandwich Islands by Capt. Lord Byron. There is no 

 specimen of Moho apicalis in the Vienna Museum. 

 Habitat: Oahu. 



