Formerly distributed over most of the island down to 300 m, including the Kohala Mountains and Kona highlands, but by the mid-1900s it had retreated upslope and apparently vanished from the north and west.<\/p>

It remained numerous in the east and south, from the northern slopes of Mauna Kea south through the kipukas and eastern forests, and west to the southwestern slopes of Mauna Loa.\u00a0 In the 1970s the total population was estimated at approximately 169,000, and it appears to have remained stable since then, with some local increases and recolonization of lower elevations.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t