Drepanis

Drepanis pacifica, the Hawaii mamo, was last seen in 1899.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Yellow was the most valued color, a stroke of bad luck for species like Drepanis pacifica, the Hawaii mamo, with its bright yellow rump highlighted against a starling-black body.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Drepanis funerea, the black mamo, disappeared about 1907.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Drepanis pacifica, the Hawaii mamo, was last seen in 1899.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Yellow was the most valued color, a stroke of bad luck for species like Drepanis pacifica, the Hawaii mamo, with its bright yellow rump highlighted against a starling-black body.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Drepanis funerea, the black mamo, disappeared about 1907.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

The _mamo_ (_Drepanis pacifica_) yields feathers of a richer color, but so distributed that they can not be plucked from the living bird.

The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915

Feathers of the _Oo_ (_Drepanis pacifica_), and of the _Iiwi_ (_Drepanis coccinea_): these birds were taken with the glue of the _ulu_ or bread-fruit (_Artocarpus incisa_); Fabrics of beaten bark (_kapa_) and fibre of the _olona_ (_Boehmeria_), of _wauke_ (_Broussonetia papyrifera_), of _hau_ (_Hilasens tiliasens_), etc.

Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Charles Nordhoff 1865