_Rhipidura rufifrons mariae_ R. H. Baker, Proc. Biol. Soc.
Washington, 59, 1946, p. 7. (Type locality, Rota.)
_Rhipidura rufifrons saipanensis_ Takatsukasa and Yamashina,
Dobutsu. Zasshi, 44, 1932, p. 222 (Rota); Hand-list Japanese Birds
(part), rev., 1932, p. 176 (Rota); Hand-list Japanese Birds
(part), 3d ed., 1942, p. 195 (Rota); Mayr (part), Birds
Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 295 (Rota); Mayr and Moynihan (part),
Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1321, 1946, p. 3 (Rota).
_Rhipidura rufifrons mariae_ Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107,
no. 15, 1948, p. 68 (Rota).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Rota.
_Characters._--Adult: Resembles adult of _R. r. saipanensis_, but
with richer brown coloring on the breast and abdomen; darker
above, especially the forehead, rump, and basal part of tail; chin
with small mount of white; malar line of white thinner.
_Measurements._--Measurements are listed in table 38.
_Weights._--Baker (1946:78) records the weights of two adult males
from Rota as 8.3 and 9.0 grams.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 2 males, from Mariana Islands,
USNM--Rota (Oct. 22).
_Remarks._--Takatsukasa and Yamashina (1932:222) published the first
account of the fantail from Rota although Coultas (field notes) obtained
a report of its presence at Rota in 1931. The NAMRU2 party obtained the
two specimens studied, and reported that the birds were numerous in the
forested areas of Rota in 1945.
=Rhipidura rufifrons versicolor= Hartlaub and Finsch