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47. MOHO NOBILIS [Merrem). 



0-0. 



Yellow-tufted Bee-eater, Lath. Gen. Syn. i. p. 683 (1782) (" Met with in great plenty at O-why-hee, and 



others of the Sandwich Isles, by our late voyagers j great variety of the specimens of which are to 



be seen in the Leverian Museum/') (The description undoubtedly applies to M. nobilis, but it is evident 

 that Latham had also one, if not two, of the other species before him) j id. Suppl. i. p. 120 (1787). 



Mohb, Ellis, Narrat. Voy. Capt. Cook & Clerke, ii. p. 156 (1782). 



Hoohoo, King, Voy. Pacific Ocean, iii. p. 119 (1784). 



Gracula nobilis, Merrcm, Beytr. bes. Gesch. d. Vogel, i. p. 8, pi. ii. (178-1) (type specimen presented by the 

 King of Great Britain to the Museum of Goettingen) ; id. Av. Rar. etc. icones et descr. i. p. 8, pi. ii- 

 (1786) (the same in Latin). 



Gracula longirostris ft Oriolus nobilis (sic), Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 398 (1788). 



Merops niger, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 465 (1788) (ex Latham's Yellow-tufted Bee-eater); Tiedemaun, Anat. & 



Naturg. Vog. ii. p. 431 (1814). 

 Merops fasciculatus, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 275 (1790) ; Less. Traite d'Orn. p. 302 (1831) (placed under his 



genus Moho). 



Philemon fasciculatus, Vieill. Nouv. Diet, xxvii. p. 428 (1818) ; id. Enc. Meth. p. 613 (1823). 



Me/iphaga fasciculata, Temm. & Laugier, Rec. d'Ois., livr. 79, pi. 471 (1829). 



Acrulocercus niger, Cab. Arch. f. Naturg. J847, p. 327; Sundev. Tentamen, p. 50 (1872). 



Moho niger, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 96 (1817) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 394 (1850) ; Hartl. Arch. f. Naturg. 1852, i. 



p. 131 ; Dole, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. 1869, p. 296 (Hawaii). 

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

 Mohoa fasciculata, Beichenb. Handb. spec. Orn. p. 333, pi. 614. fig. 4098 (1853). 



Mohoa nobilis, Cass. Proc. Ac. N. S. Philad. 1855, p. 439; Scl. Ibis, 1871, pp. 358, 360; id. P. Z. S. 1878, 



p. 347; Pelz. Journ. f. Orn. 1872, p. 25. 

 Moho nobilis, Cass. U.S. Expl. Exp., Mamm. & Orn. p. 170 (1858) ; Gray, Cat. B. Trop. Isl. p. 9 (1859) 



Dole, Hawaiian Alman. 1879, p. 46 ; Gadow, Cat. B. ix. p. 284 (partim ! the description is that of a 



Moho nobilis, but in the synonymy M. braccatus is included) ; Stejn. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1887, p. 101 



(differences between M . nobilis and M. braccatus) . 

 Acrulocercus nobilis, Reichenow, Vog. Zool. Gart. ii. p. 359 (1881); Wilson, Ibis, 1890, p. 177; id. & Evans, 



Aves Hawaiienses, pt. i. text & plate of both sexes (1890) ; Gadow in Aves Hawaiienses, pt. ii. p. 9 



(structure) ; Perkins, Ibis, 1893, p. 109 (common in Kona, Hawaii; antipathy to the Vestiaria). 

 Acrulocercus braccatus, Gadow, in Aves Hawaiienses (? partim) (the large yellow pectoral tufts are, of 



course, not present in braccatus, but in nobilis). 



Adult male. Deep glossy black, duller on the lower abdomen and upper tail-coverts. In most 

 specimens there is a faint brownish-yellow wash on the ear-coverts. Feathers of the 

 back, breast, and upper part of the abdomen dull at base, greyish along the basal part of 

 the shaft, and with a more glossy border, thus producing a somewhat scaly appearance. 



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