_Thryothorus luscinius_ Quoy and Gaimard, Voy. "l'Astrolabe,"
Zool., 1, 1830, p. 202, pl. 5, fig. 2. (Type locality, Marian Is. =
Guam.)
_Sylvia syrinx_ Kittlitz (part), Obser. Zool., in Lutké, Voy. "Le
Seniavine," 3, 1836, p. 306 (Guahan); _idem_ (part), Denkw. Reise
russ. Amer. Micron. und Kamchat., 2, 1858, p. 141 (Guaham).
_Tatare luscinia_ Gray, Genera Birds, 3, 1849, App. 8 (Marian Is.
= Guam); Hartlaub, Journ. f. Ornith., 1854, p. 167 (Mariannen =
Guam); Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Is. Pacific Ocean, 1859, p. 14
(Ladrone or Marian Is. = Guam); Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 12,
1876, p. 31 (Guaham); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus.
Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 41 (Guam); Büttikofer, Notes
Leyden Mus., 14, 1892, p. 16 (Guam); Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus.
Hist. Nat. Paris, (3), 7, 1895, p. 209 (Guam).
_Tatare luscinius_ Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, 1, 1850, p. 224 (Guam);
_idem_, Comptes Rendus Acad. Sci. Paris, 41, 1855, p. 1111
(Mariannes = Guam); Gray, Hand-list Birds, 1, 1869, p. 194 (Ladrone
= Guam).
_Hybristes_ [_luscinia_] Reichenbach, Syst. Avium, 1850, pl. 57,
fig. 7 (no locality = Guam).
_Acrocephalus orientalis_ Pelzeln, Reise, "Novara," Vögel, 1865,
p. 64 (Guaham).
_Tatares luscinius_ Giebel, Thes. Ornith., 3, 1877, p. 599
(Marianae).
_Acrocephalus mariannae_ Tristram, Ibis, 1883, p. 45 (Type
locality, Guam).
_Tatare mariannae_ Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus., 7, 1883, p.
528 (Marianne = Guam); Oustalet, Le Nat., 1889, p. 260 (Mariannes
= Guam).
_Acrocephalus luscinia_ Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 57
(Guam, Saipan); Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1,
1901, p. 53 (Guam, Saipan); Matschie, Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, pp.
112, 113 (Guam, Saipan); Safford, Osprey, 1902, p. 69 (Guam);
Dubois, Syn. Avium, 1, 1902, p. 369 (Marianne); Safford, Amer.
Anthro., 4, 1902, p. 711 (Guam); _idem_, The Plant World, 7, 1904,
p. 264 (Guam); _idem_, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb., 9, 1905, pp. 30,
79 (Guam); Reichenow, Die Vögel, 2, 1914, p. 545 (Marianen); Cox,
Island of Guam, 1917, p. 21 (Guam); Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, 1922, p. 67 (Guam, Saipan); Bryan, Guam Rec., vol. 13,
no. 2, 1936, p. 25 (Guam); Thompson, Guam and its people, 1942, p.
23 (Guam); Strophlet, Auk, 1946, p. 539 (Guam).
_Conopoderas luscinia_ Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 2,
1930, p. 594 (Marianas); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p.
177 (Marianas).
_Conopoderas luscinia hivae_ Yamashina, Bull. Biogeogr. Soc.
Japan, 12, 1942, p. 81 (Type locality, Saipan); Hand-list Japanese
Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 196 (Almagan, Saipan).
_Conopoderas luscinia luscinia_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed.,
1942, p. 197 (Guam).
_Acrocephalus luscinia luscinia_ Mayr (part), Birds Southwest
Pacific, 1945, p. 294 (Guam, Saipan, Almagan); Stott, Auk, 1947,
p. 526 (Saipan); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15,
1948, p. 67 (Guam).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Guam, Saipan,
Almagan.
_Character._--Adult: A rather large warbler with long, curved
bill; upper parts near "Saccardo olive"; feathers of head grayer
because of darker shafts; rump paler and browner; lores dark;
supraloral stripe light buffy-yellow; auriculars, cheeks, and
sides of neck slightly darker; chin, throat, breast, and abdomen
pale buffy-yellow; tibia darker and more olivaceous-brown; under
tail-coverts pale yellow-buff; wing and tail feathers brown, edged
with ochraceous; under wing grayish, inner edges lighter;
axillaries pinkish-white; upper mandible dark horn colored; lower
mandible lighter yellow; feet light gray; iris brown. Female
resembles male but is slightly smaller.