_Rhipidura lepida_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London,
1868, p. 6. (Type locality, Pelew Islands.)
_Rhipidura lepida_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London,
1868, pp. 117, 118 (Pelew Islands); Gray, Hand-list Birds, 1,
1869, p. 331 (Pelew); Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc.
London, 1872, pp. 89, 97 (Pelew); Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy,
8, 1875, pp. 4, 21, pl. 4, fig. 2-3 (Palau); Sharpe, Cat. Birds
British Mus., 4, 1879, p. 322 (Pelew); Schmeltz and Krause,
Ethnogr. Abth. Mus. Godeffroy, 1881, p. 407 (Palau); Tristram,
Cat. Birds, 1889, p. 198 (Pelew); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber.
Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 21 (Pelew);
Büttikofer, Notes Leyden Mus., 15, 1893, p. 81 (Pelew); Bolau,
Mitteil. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, 1898, p. 55 (Palau); Matschie,
Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, pp. 112, 113 (Palau); Dubois, Syn. Avium,
1, 1902, p. 278 (Pelew); Reichenow, Die Vögel, 2, 1914, p. 267
(Palau); Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 54 (Pelew);
Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 66 (Pelew);
Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum], 2, 1930, p. 484 (Pelew);
Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 176 (Palau); Hand-list
Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 196 (Babelthuap, Koror, Peliliu);
Mayr and Moynihan, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1321, 1946, pp. 3, 5, 8,
10, 12, 19 (Palau); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no.
15, 1948, p. 68 (Peleliu).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Palau Islands--Babelthuap, Koror,
Garakayo, Peleliu, Ngabad.
_Characters._--Adult: Upper parts near "cinnamon-rufous," slightly
lighter on the upper wing-coverts, scapulars, edges of inner
secondaries, and rump; lores blackish; orbital ring and auriculars
dark brown; chin, upper throat, and malar region white; lower
throat and upper breast black with ashy-gray sides; lower breast
whitish; rest of underparts like back but slightly paler; wings
dark; tail black with tips rufous, inner rectrices with rufous
tips narrower than on tail; under wing-coverts and axillaries
broadly edged with rufous; bill blackish, lower mandible whitish
at base; feet brownish; iris dark brown. Female slightly smaller.
Immature: Resembles adult, but head and neck brown; throat coloring
dingy; patch on breast blackish cinnamon. Younger individuals may
be more tinged with rufous above and below.
_Measurements._--Measurements are listed in table 39.