. The avifauna of Laysan and the neighbouring islands : with a complete history to date of the birds of the Hawaiian possessions . 0 feet. Palmer calls it very active and theshiest of the bush-birds. He saw them always moving about and keeping in the high Ohia-trees. They were difficult to shoot. Nothing is known about the O-os nesting. Perkins was told by a native and a whiteboy that they saw such a bird enter a hole in the trunk of a Lehua-tree, very high up, butthat they were unable to climb the tree. This wras about the middle of June, the same timewhen Mr. Perkins obtained a young bird wh
. The avifauna of Laysan and the neighbouring islands : with a complete history to date of the birds of the Hawaiian possessions . 0 feet. Palmer calls it very active and theshiest of the bush-birds. He saw them always moving about and keeping in the high Ohia-trees. They were difficult to shoot. Nothing is known about the O-os nesting. Perkins was told by a native and a whiteboy that they saw such a bird enter a hole in the trunk of a Lehua-tree, very high up, butthat they were unable to climb the tree. This wras about the middle of June, the same timewhen Mr. Perkins obtained a young bird which certainly had not been long out of thenest. This species inhabits Hawaii only. Henshaw (in litt.) says :— It is found in the forest near the Wailuku, but is rare; andconstant persecution on the part of the Kanakas for the yellow feathers has made the birdexceedingly shy. The day of doom is fast approaching. In neither Olaa or Puna is it foundat all, and these districts were formerly its favourite haunts. There is a large series in the Kiel Museum, collected by Behn during the Danishexpedition of the ship Galathea. 2h 2. AVIFAUNA OF LAYSAN, ETC. 223 48. MOHO APICALIS, Gould. Yellow-tufted Bee-eater (non Latham !), Dixon, Voy. round the World, plate p. 357 (1789).Merops fasciculatus £, Lath. Ind. Orn. i. p. 275 (1790) (recognizable description, ex Dixon).Yellow-tufted Bee-eater var. A, Lath. Suppl. ii. p. 149 (1801). Moho apicalis, Gould, P. Z. S. 1860, p. 381 j Dole, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. 1869, p. 297; Gray, Hand-1. i. p. 114 (1869) j Gadow, Cat. B. ix. p. 285 (1884).Mohoa apicalis, Scl. Ibis, 1871, p. 369, 1879, p. 92; Pelz. J. f. Orn. 1872, p. 26. (Two specimens, H. Deppe coll., Enero, Oahu, 1837, in Vienna Museum.)Acrulocercus apicalis, Wilson & Evans, Aves Hawaiienses, pt. v. text & plate (1894). Adult male. Black ; brownish and with distinct pale shaft-lines on the back and with white tips for about 0 6 to 01 in., only the central pair without whiteti
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