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| Number | | | |
SUBSPECIES | and sex | Wing | Tail | Full culmen | Tarsus
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_M. o. erythrops_ | 14 males | 69 | 53 | 16.4 | 19.5
| | (68-71) | (51-56) | (16.0-17.3) | (18.5-20)
| | | | |
| 11 females | 66 | 51 | 16.1 | 19.5
| | (64-68) | (48-53) | (15.5-17.0) | (18.5-20)
| | | | |
_M. o. freycineti_| 25 males | 70 | 60 | 16.3 | 19.5
| | (67-73) | (57-64) | (15.8-17.0) | (18.5-20)
| | | | |
| 16 females | 67 | 57 | 16.0 | 19.0
| | (65-70) | (55-62) | (15.5-17.0) | (18.0-19)
| | | | |
_M. o. oceanica_ | 11 males | 81 | 68 | 20.1 | 20.0
| | (78-83) | (65-71) | (19.5-20.5) | (19.5-21)
| | | | |
| 10 females | 79 | 66 | 20.0 | 20.0
| | (77-81) | (65-68) | (20.0-20.5) | (19-20.5)
| | | | |
_M. o. pluto_ | 14 males | 82 | 74 | 17.5 | 19.0
| | (79-83) | (71-77) | (17.5-18.0) | (18.5-20)
| | | | |
| 14 females | 80 | 73 | 17.5 | 19.0
| | (78-84) | (69-77) | (17.0-18.0) | (18.5-20)
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_Specimens examined._--Total number, 33 (17 males, 15 females, 1
unsexed), as follows: Palau Islands, USNM--Babelthuap, 1 (Nov.
27)--Koror, 4 (Nov. 6, 19, 26)--Garakayo, 1 (Sept. 18)--Peleliu, 2
(Aug. 30)--Ngabad, 2 (Sept. 11); AMNH--exact locality not given, 23
(Oct., Nov., Dec.).
_Molt._--Molt apparently takes place in fall and early winter. Of
the specimens examined, there is little evidence of molt in those
obtained in August and September while there is considerably more
evidence of molt in those taken in November and December.
_Food habits._--A bird taken by the writer on September 17, 1945,
at Garakayo had approximately one-half cc. of insect parts in its
stomach.
_Remarks._--The Micronesian Broadbill at Palau is a friendly little bird
and easily called-up to within a few yards of a person by imitating its
note. It was seen by the NAMRU2 party in 1945 as singles and in pairs in
the dense underbrush of the undisturbed forested areas. The bird was
seen at only one woodland area at Peleliu (Southeastern Peninsula), but
it was observed more frequently on the smaller islands of Ngabad and
Garakayo. Coultas (field notes) also notes that in 1931 this bird was
found more frequently on the smaller islands. _Myiagra_ was found to be
much less conspicuous at Palau than _Rhipidura lepida_. _Myiagra_
appears to be less active, more solitary in its habits, and possibly
more restricted in the territory that it covers in feeding than
_Rhipidura_.
=Myiagra oceanica freycineti= Oustalet