_Chalcopsitta rubiginosus_ Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci.
Paris, 30, February, 1850, p. 134; Consp. Avium, 1, after April 15,
1850, p. 3. (Type locality, "ex Insulis Barabay et Guebe," error =
Ponapé.)
_Chalcopsitta rubiginosus_ Bonaparte, Proc. Zool. Soc. London,
1850, p. 26, pl. 16 ("Ins. Barabay et Guebe," error = Ponapé);
Pelzeln, Reise "Novara," Vögel, 1865, pp. 99, 162 (Puynipet);
Reichenow, Journ. f. Ornith., 1881, p. 162 ("Nordwestl.
Polynessische subregion Carolinen" = Ponapé); Tristram, Cat.
Birds, 1889, p. 73 (Ponapé); Finsch, Deut. Verein zum Schultze der
Vogelwelt, 18, 1893, p. 458 (Carolinen = Ponapé); Matschie, Journ.
f. Ornith., 1901, p. 112 (Ponapé).
_Domicella rubiginosa_ Finsch, Die Papageien, 2, 1868, p. 781
(Puynipet); Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872, p.
88 (Puinipet).
_Lorius rubiginosus_ Gray, Hand-list Birds, 2, 1870, p. 153
(Puynipet); Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, 3, no. 38, 1874, p. 58
(Puynipet).
_Lorius rubiginosa_ Giebel, Thes. Ornith., 2, 1875, p. 502
(Senjawin = Ponapé).
_Trichoglossus rubiginosus_ Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 12,
1876, pp. 17, 18 (Ponapé); _idem_, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877
(1878), p. 778 (Ponapé); _idem_, Journ. f. Ornith., 1880, p. 284
(Ponapé); Schmeltz and Krause, Ethnogr. Abth. Mus. Godeffroy,
1881, p. 281 (Ponapé); Finsch, Ibis, 1881, pp. 110, 111, 114
(Ponapé); _idem_, Mitth. Ornith. Ver. Wien, 1884, p. 49 (Ponapé);
Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml. Senckenb., 1891, p. 161 (Puypinet);
Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6 1890-1891
(1891), p. 8 (Ponapé); Peters, Check-list Birds World, 3, 1937, p.
151 (Ponapé); Mayr, Proc. Sixth Pac. Sci. Congr., 4, 1941, p. 204
(Ponapé); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 201 (Ponapé);
Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 291 (Ponapé).
_Eos rubiginosa_ Salvadori, Ornith. Papuasia, 1, 1880, p. 267
(Puynipet); _idem_, Cat. Birds British Mus., 20, 1891, p. 29
(Ponapé); Christian, The Caroline Islands, 1899, p. 357 (Ponapé);
Finsch, Notes Leyden Mus., 22, 1900, p. 142 (Ponapé); Dubois, Syn.
Avium, 1902, p. 29 (Puinipet); Uchida, Annot. Zool. Japon., 9,
1918, pp. 484, 493 (Ponapé); Wetmore, in Townsend and Wetmore,
Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoöl., 63, 1919, p. 192 (Ponapé).
_Chalcopsittacus rubiginosus_ Finsch, Sammlung wissensch.
Vorträge, 14th Ser., 1900, p. 639 (Ponapé).
_Oenopsittacus rubiginosus_ Reichenow, Die Vögel, 1, 1913, p. 443
(Karolinen = Ponapé); Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922,
p. 58 (Ponapé); Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 1, 1927, p.
295 (Ponapé); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 181
(Ponapé).
_Eos rubiginosus_ Takastukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 53
(Ponapé).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Caroline Islands--Ponapé.
_Characters._--Adult: A medium-sized, dark raspberry-red lory with
head and nape deep purplish-red; upper back, scapulars, and upper
wing-coverts raspberry-red, edged with blackish; lower back, rump,
and upper tail-coverts more purplish; tail yellowish-green
becoming more yellow and less green toward tip; wings black with
outer webs olivaceous-green; outer edges of primaries more
yellowish; lores, chin, auriculars, sides of head, and neck deep
purplish-red, chin feathers faintly barred with raspberry and
edged with blackish; throat, breast, abdomen, and flanks
raspberry-red, feathers edged with blackish except on lower
abdomen; under tail-coverts orange-red, under wing-coverts deep
purple with black edges; bill of male orange, of female paler
yellow; feet black; iris of male light yellowish-orange, of female
grayish-white.
Immature: Resembles adult, but with narrow and more sharply pointed
tail feathers.
_Measurements._--Measurements are presented in table 29.