_Myiagra erythrops_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London,
1868, p. 6. (Type locality, Pelew Islands.)
_Myiagra erythrops_ Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London,
1868, pp. 117, 118 (Pelew Islands); _idem_, Proc. Zool. Soc.
London, 1872, pp. 89, 97 (Pelew); Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy,
8, 1875, pp. 4, 20 (Palau); Giebel, Thes. Ornith., 2, 1875, p. 658
(Pelew); Nehrkorn, Journ. f. Ornith., 1879, pp. 399, 403 (Palau);
Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus., 4, 1879, p. 383 (Pelew); Schmeltz
and Krause, Ethnogr. Abth. Mus. Godeffroy, 1881, p. 407 (Palau);
Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6,
1890-1891 (1891), p. 23 (Pelew); Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist.
Nat. Paris, (3), 7, 1895, p. 195 (Palaos); Bolau, Mitteil.
Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, 1898, p. 55 (Palau); Matschie, Journ. f.
Ornith., 1901, pp. 112, 113 (Palau); Dubois, Syn. Avium, 1, 1902,
p. 283 (Pelew); Reichenow, Die Vögel, 2, 1914, p. 260 (Palau);
Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 54 (Pelew); Kuroda, in
Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 64 (Pelew); Yamashina, Tori,
10, 1940, p. 674 (Palau); Handlist Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942,
p. 195 (Babelthuap, Koror); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol.
107, no. 15, 1948, p. 69 (Peleliu, Ngabad, Garakayo).
_Submyiagra erythrops_ Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 2,
1930, p. 504 (Palau); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 176
(Palau).
_Myiagra oceanica erythrops_ Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945,
p. 296 (Palau).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Palau Islands--Babelthuap, Koror,
Garakayo, Peleliu, Ngabad.
_Characters._--Adult male: Crown, occiput, nape, and auriculars
dark "slate-blue"; forehead, lores and orbital ring dark
"cinnamon-rufous"; black and upper wing-coverts olive-brown; rump
more like crown; underparts near "cinnamon," paler on middle of
abdomen, sides, and under tail-coverts; wings and tail dark brown,
edged with white; secondaries edged with brownish; under
wing-coverts whitish with dusky bases; bill and feet black.
Adult female: Resembles adult male, but slightly smaller and paler
in color.
Immature: Resembles adult, but head and rump browner; forehead,
lores, and orbital ring sandy in some individuals, more rufous in
others; underparts usually paler than in adult; bill basally
lighter.
_Measurements._--Measurements are listed in table 42.