_Rhipidura Uraniae_ Oustalet, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, (7), 5,
1881, p. 76. (Type locality, Mariannes = Guam.)
_Rhipidura pectoralis_ Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Is. Pacific Ocean,
1859, p. 17 (Ladrone or Marian Is. = Guam).
_Rhipidura uraniae_ Reichenow and Schlow, Journ. f. Ornith., 1884,
p. 398 (Mariannes = Guam); Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 53
(Guam); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6,
1890-1891 (1891), p. 20 (Marianne = Guam); Büttikofer, Notes
Leyden Mus., 15, 1893, p. 76 (Guam); Wheeler, Report Island of
Guam, 1900, p. 13 (Guam); Matschie, Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, pp.
112, 113 (Guam); Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1,
1901, p. 48 (Guam); Safford, Osprey, 1902, p. 69 (Guam); Dubois,
Syn. Avium, 1, 1902, p. 277 (Guam); Safford, The Plant World, 7,
1904, p. 263 (Guam); _idem_, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb., 9, 1905, p.
79 (Guam); Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 36, 1909, p. 477 (Guam);
Schnee, Zeitschr. f. Naturwisch., 82, 1910, p. 464 (Marianen =
Guam); Reichenow, Die Vögel, 2, 1914, p. 267 (Marianen = Guam);
Cox, Island of Guam, 1917, p. 21 (Guam); Kuroda, in Momiyama,
Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 65 (Guam); Bryan, Guam Rec., vol. 13,
no. 2, 1936, p. 25 (Guam).
_Rhipidura atrigularis_ Reichenow, Journ. f. Ornith., 1885, p. 110
(Type locality, Palau, error = Guam); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und
Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 21 (Pelew,
error = Guam); Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 63
(Marianne = Guam).
_Rhipidura versicolor_ Oustalet (part), Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist.
Nat. Paris, (3), 7, 1895, p. 190 (Guam).
_Rhipidura rufifrons uraniae_ Mathews, Syst. Avium
Australasianarum, 2, 1930, p. 490 (Marianne = Guam); Hand-list
Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 176 (Guam); Hand-list Japanese
Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 195 (Guam); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific,
1945, p. 295 (Guam); Watson, The Raven, 17, 1946, p. 42 (Guam);
Mayr and Moynihan, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1321, 1946, pp. 3, 9
(Guam); Baker, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 59, 1946, p. 77
(Guam); _idem_, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p.
67 (Guam).
_Rhipidura rufifrons_ Wharton, Ecol. Monogr., 16, 1948, p. 174
(Guam); Strophlet, Auk, 1946, p. 339 (Guam).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Guam.
_Characters._--Adult: Forehead and anterior crown near
"cinnamon-buff"; lores and orbital ring black, auriculars more
brownish than lores; malar stripe white; a few feathers in
posterior malar region tipped with "citrine drab"; anterior part
of chin white; posterior part of chin, throat, and upper breast
black; feathers on breast edged with white; lower breast, abdomen,
sides, flanks, tibia, vent, and under tail-coverts near "royal
brown," becoming lighter on breast and more rufous on under
tail-coverts; sides of neck and back near "Dresden brown,"
becoming grayer on neck and crown where feathers have darker
shafts; rump and upper tail-coverts near "orange rufous"; basal
half of tail slightly lighter than rump; terminal part of tail
black, tipped with white; wings dark edged with coloring like
back; under wing grayish with axillaries tipped with buffy-white;
bill black with base of upper mandible lighter; feet dark brown;
iris dark brown.
Immature: Resembles adult, but head, neck, scapulars, and
secondaries edged with rufous; feathers of chin and throat edged
with whitish. Younger birds may have less rufous on head but
feathers of body more rufous with creamy edges.
_Measurements._--Measurements are listed in table 38.