(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 1860, 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).
This rarest species of the Mohos formerly inhabited the island of Oahu,
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.
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