 There are many specimens of this bird in American and European museums.The bird seemed to disappear in 1899, but reports of this bird continued for a few more years.The last confirmed sighting was in July 1898 near Kaumana on the island of Hawaii by a collector, Henry W. Henshaw, who, as mentioned by Tim Flannery in his book, "A Gap In Nature", shot and wounded a bird he was stalking, before it escaped with another bird.