Black Mamo
Extinct circa 1907 CE • Molokai
"I saw three adult males of this bird in one low bush passing from flower to flower and spending only a few seconds over each. These were very tame and I was also to watch their movements in this and neighbouring bushes for at least an hour. Even those flowers which were at a height of no more than a foot from the ground were carefully explored."
-R.C.L Perkins (1903)
Fuller, Errol. Extinct Birds. Ithaca, NY: Comstock Pub., 2001.
Black Mamo (Drepanis funera), illustration by John Gerrard Keulemans (1842-1912), from Walter Rothschild: The Birds of Laysan, 1897.
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