_Globicera oceanica monacha_ Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, March,
1922, p. 4. (Type locality, Yap.)
_Columba oceanica_ Lesson and Garnot (part), Dict. Sci. Nat., éd.
Levrault, 40, 1826, p. 317 (Pelew); Lesson (part), Man. d'Ornith.,
2, 1828, p. 166 (Pelew); _idem_ (part), Voy. "La Coquille," Zool.,
2, 1828, pp. 432, 709 (Pelew); _idem_, Compl. de Buffon, 2d ed.,
2, Oiseaux, 1838, p. 292 (Pelew); Prévost and Knip, Les Pigeons,
2, 1838-43, p. 49 (Pelew).
_Carpophaga oceanica_ Hartlaub (part), Archiv. f. Naturgesch., 18,
1852, p. 115 (Pelewinseln); _idem_, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867
(1868), p. 830 (Pelew); Gray (part), Hand-list Birds, 2, 1870, p.
229 (Pelew); Hartlaub and Finsch (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. London,
1872, pp. 89, 101 (Pelew); Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875,
pp. 5, 26 (Palau); _idem_ (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877
(1878), pp. 775, 780 (Palau); Salvadori (part), Cronaca del R.
Liceo-Ginnasio Cavour, 1878, pp. 3, 8 (Pelew); _idem_, Ibis, 1879,
p. 364 (Pelew); Tristram, Cat. Birds, 1889, p. 42 (Pelew);
Wiglesworth (part), Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6,
1890-1891 (1891), p. 52 (Pelew); Matschie (part), Journ. f.
Ornith., 1901, p. 113 (Palau); Dubois (part), Syn. Avium, 2, 1904,
p. 743 (Pelew); Reichenow (part), Die Vögel, 1, 1913, p. 351
(Palau).
_Globicera oceanica_ Bonaparte (part), Consp. Avium, 2, 1855, p.
31 (Pelew); Reichenbach (part), Tauben, 1861, p. 120 (Pelew);
Salvadori (part), Cat. Birds British Mus., 21, 1893, p. 176
(Pelew); Takatsukasa and Kuroda (part), Tori, 1, 1915, p. 52
(Pelew); Uchida, Annot. Zool. Japon., 9, 1918, pp. 486, 489
(Palau).
_Carpophaga (Globicera) oceanica_ Gray (part), Cat. Birds Trop. Is.
Pacific Ocean, 1859, p. 41 (Pelew).
_Carpophaga pacifica_ Finsch and Hartlaub (part), Fauna
Centralpolynesiens, 1867, p. 145 (Pelew); Hartlaub and Finsch,
Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, pp. 7, 118 (Pelew); Finsch and
Hartlaub, Journ. f. Ornith., 1870, p. 134 (Pelew).
_Globicera oceanica monacha_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, 1922, p. 55 (Yap); Mathews, Syst. Avium
Australasianarum, 1, 1927, p. 46 (Yap); Yamashina, Tori, 7, 1932,
p. 408 (Yap); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 189 (Yap,
Palau, Current = Palo Anna).
_Globicera oceanica momiyamai_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, March, 1922, pp. 25, 56 (Type locality, Angaur);
Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 1, 1927, p. 46 (Pelew);
Kuroda, Ibis, 1927, p. 719 (Pelew).
_Muscadivora oceanica winkleri_ Neumann, Verhandl. Ornith. Ges.
Bayern, 25, Sept. 1, 1922, p. 234 (Type locality, Palau).
_Ducula oceanica monacha_ Peters, Check-list Birds World, 3, 1937,
p. 43 (Yap, Babelthuap, Koror, Angaur, Current); Hand-list
Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 211 (Yap, Babelthuap, Koror,
Angaur, Current); Amadon, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1237, 1943, p. 11
(Yap, Palau); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 289 (Palau,
Yap); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 66
(Peleliu, Garakayo, Babelthuap).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Palau Islands--Babelthuap, Koror,
Garakayo, Peleliu, Angaur, Palo Anna; Caroline Islands--Yap.
_Characters._--Adult: Resembles _D. o. oceanica_ from Kusaie but
throat, breast, head, and neck light ashy-gray; feathers around
bill grayish-white; abdomen and under tail-coverts tipped with
light brown.
Immature: Resembles adult, but underparts paler; back lacking dark
bluish spots; back feathers and wing feathers edged with light
brown.
_Measurements._--Measurements of _D. oceanica_ are listed in table
27.