Bishop's O`o
Extinct circa 1904 • Molokai
"This particular 'o'o species may not have been restricted to Molokai and it perhaps inhabited the nearby island of Maui. H.W. Henshaw recorded seeing a single adult male in the forest stretching northeast of Olinda at an altitude of 1,375m (4,500 ft.) in June 1901."
Fuller, Errol. Extinct Birds. Ithaca, NY: Comstock Pub., 2001. 335.
Moho bishopi, John Gerrard Keulemans, 1893, " Walter Rothschild. The Avifauna of Laysan," courtesy of The Smithsonian Institution.
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