Known as the hoa on its Hawaiian island of Molokai --- with a fossil record also found on the neighboring Maui --- the black mamo was known for its highly decurved bill, often dusted with pollen from lobelia flowers. Killed off by habitat destruction and the introduction of rats and mosquito-borne diseases, the last recorded specimens were captured in 1907, only fourteen years after its first recording by European naturalists. Its Latin name funereal, the same root from which we derive the word funeral, tragically hints toward its doomed future. Alfred Newton, who taxonomized the bird, wrote that Its sombre plumage and the sad fate that too probably awaits the species induce me to propose for it the name Drepanis funerea. Yet the bird's behavior was anything but funereal, for it was remembered as a markedly curious creature, which would seek out human proximity and respond to manmade imitations of its call. William Alanson Bryan, who published a natural history of Hawaii in 1915, captured the beauty of the bird's feeding, before loading his shotgun and killing the last specimens ever collected: The tongue was inserted with great precision, up to the nostrils, in the flower, while the bird balanced itself on the branches, assuming almost every imaginable attitude in its operations. In all three of the birds secured, the crown was smeared with the sticky purplish white pollen of this lobelia.