_Campephaga monacha_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London,
1872, p. 99. (Type locality, Pelew Islands.)
_Volvocivora monacha_ Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875, pp.
4, 19, pl. 3, fig. 2-3 (Palau); _idem_, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 12,
1876, p. 28 (Palau); Schmeltz and Krause, Ethnogr. Abth. Mus.
Godeffroy, 1881, p. 407 (Palau).
_Lalage monacha_ Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus., 4, 1879, p. 105
(Pelew); Tristram, Cat. Birds, 1889, p. 186 (Pelew); Wiglesworth,
Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p.
25 (Pelew); Bolau, Mitteil. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, 1898, p. 53
(Palau); Matschie, Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, pp. 112, 113 (Palau);
Dubois, Syn. Avium., 1, 1902, p. 303 (Pelew); Reichenow, Die
Vögel, 2, 1914, p. 276 (Palau); Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1,
1915, p. 54 (Pelew); Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922,
p. 68 (Pelew); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 175
(Palau); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 194
(Babelthuap, Koror).
_Edolisoma monacha_ Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 2,
1930, p. 541 (Pelew).
_Edolisoma tenuirostre monacha_ Stresemann, Ornith. Monatsber.,
47, 1939, p. 126 (Palau); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p.
294 (Palau); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948,
p. 65 (Peleliu).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Palau Islands--Babelthuap, Koror,
Peleliu.
_Characters._--Adult male: Forehead, crown, nape, back, and
underparts near "Tyrian blue"; auriculars darker than back; lores
and chin black; throat black washed with blue gray; wing feathers
black, margined with pale blue; black tail tipped with whitish,
and basal part of middle two rectrices colored like back; under
wing dark except for whitish inner margins of secondaries; bill
and feet black; iris dark brown.
Adult female: Resembles adult male, but forehead and under eye
pale buff; superciliary stripe darker buff; crown, nape, and sides
of neck dark slate-blue; mantle brown, feathers with buffy
centers; back brown washed with burnt brown; feathers of rump and
upper tail-coverts with terminal black bar edged with buff; wing
and tail brownish-black, primaries margined with buff, innermost
three secondaries and upper wing-coverts broadly edged with
lighter buff, tail tipped with buff, more broadly so on outermost
tail feathers, two outermost tail feathers with outer edge buff;
two central tail feathers basally dark ochre; ear-coverts buff,
tinged with black; chin, throat, and under wing-coverts deep buff;
breast, abdomen, and flanks buff, feathers with subterminal
blackish bar; under tail buff.
Immature: Resembles adult female, but crown, nape, and sides of
neck brown; back faintly mottled with buff; tail feathers and
primary wing-coverts tipped with white; younger birds may have
upper parts margined with pale buff.
_Measurements._--Measurements are listed in table 34.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 23 (13 males, 10 females), as
follows: Palau Islands, USNM--Koror, 4 (Nov. 6, 14, 26, Dec.
5)--Peleliu, 2 (Aug. 29, 30); AMNH--exact locality not given, 17
(Oct., Nov., Dec.).