_Psamathia annae_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London,
1868, p. 5, pl. 2. (Type locality, Pelew Islands.)
_Psamathia annae_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London,
1868, pp. 116, 118 (Pelew); _idem_, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872,
pp. 89, 94 (Pelew); Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875, pp. 5,
22 (Palau); Nehrkorn, Journ. f. Ornith., 1879, pp. 399, 404
(Palau); Schmeltz and Krause, Ethnogr. Abth. Mus. Godeffroy, 1881,
p. 407 (Palau); Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus., 7, 1883, p. 101
(Pelew); Tristram, Cat. Birds, 1889, p. 155 (Pelew); Wiglesworth,
Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p.
40 (Pelew); Bolau, Mitteil. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, 1898, p. 57
(Palau); Matschie, Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, p. 112 (Palau);
Reichenow, Die Vögel, 2, 1914, p. 536 (Palau); Takatsukasa and
Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 54 (Pelew); Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, 1922, p. 67 (Pelew); Mathews, Syst. Avium
Australasianarum, 2, 1930, p. 629 (Pelew); Hand-list Japanese
Birds, rev., 1932, p. 177 (Palau); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d
ed., 1942, p. 196 (Babelthuap, Koror, Peleliu); Delacour, Ibis,
84, 1942, p. 514 (Palau); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p.
294 (Palau); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948,
p. 197 (Peleliu, Ngabad).
_Calamodyta annae_ Gray, Hand-list Birds, 1, 1869, p. 208 (Pelew).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Palau Islands--Babelthuap, Koror,
Garakayo, Peleliu, Ngabad.
_Characters._--Adult: A medium-sized warbler with a rather long
bill and tail; upper parts near "buff olive," slightly lighter on
head; lores olive-gray to olive-green; supraloral stripe and
orbital ring pale yellow-buff; auriculars yellow-brown; underparts
lighter and more olive-yellow than back, especially in midsection;
chin paler; sides, tibia and under tail-coverts darker and more
olivaceus; wings and tail dark brown with outer edges olive; under
wing-coverts light yellow; axillaries more whitish; upper mandible
horn-colored, darker at base; lower mandible yellowish, darker at
base; legs and feet light yellowish-brown; iris grayish-brown.
Adult female resembles adult male but is slightly smaller.
Immature: Resembles adult but forehead and crown slightly lighter
and more yellowish; back and rump more brownish.
_Measurements._--Measurements are listed in table 36.