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MOHO APICALISGOULD.
(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.
