_Myiagra oceanica_ Pucheran, Voy. Pôle Sud, Zool., 3, 1853, p. 77.
(Type locality, Hogoleu = Truk.)
_Myiagra oceanica_ Hartlaub, Journ. f. Ornith., 1854, p. 168
(Carolinen = Truk); Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Is. Pacific Ocean,
1859, p. 18 (Hogoleu = Truk); Finsch and Hartlaub, Fauna
Centralpolynesiens, 1867, p. 94 (Hogoleu = Truk); Gray, Hand-list
Birds, 1, 1869, p. 328 (Caroline Is. = Truk); Pelzeln, Journ. f.
Ornith., 1875, p. 51 (Hogoleu = Truk); Sharpe, Cat. Birds British
Mus., 4, 1879, p. 383 (Hogoleu = Truk); Nehrkorn, Journ. f.
Ornith., 1879, p. 403 (Ruk); Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London,
1880, p. 575 (Ruk); Oustalet, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, (7), 5,
1881, p. 73 (Carolines = Truk); Schmeltz and Krause, Ethnogr.
Abth. Mus. Godeffroy, 1881, p. 353 (Ruk); Reichenow and Schalow,
Journ. f. Ornith., 1884, p. 395 (Carolines = Truk); Tristram, Cat.
Birds, 1889, p. 200 (Ruk); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool.
Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 23 (Ruk); Oustalet,
Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, (3), 7, 1895, p. 196 (Hogoleu =
Truk); Nehrkorn, Kat. Eiers., 1899, p. 30 (Ruk); Hartert, Novit.
Zool., 7, 1900, p. 5 (Ruk); Matschie, Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, pp.
111, 112, 113 (Ruck); Dubois, Syn. Avium, 1, 1902, p. 283 (Hogoleu
= Truk); Reichenow, Die Vögel, 2, 1914, p. 260 (Karolinen = Truk);
Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 54 (Ruk); Wetmore, in
Townsend and Wetmore, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoöl., 63, 1919, p. 204
(Truk); Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 64 (Ruk);
Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 195 (Truk); Baker,
Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 68 (Truk).
_Myiagra albiventris_ Finsch and Hartlaub, Fauna
Centralpolynesiens, 1867, p. 93 (Hoguleu = Truk); Giebel, Thes.
Ornith., 2, 1875, p. 658 (Carolinae = Truk).
_Submyiagra oceanica_ Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 2,
1930, p. 505 (Ruk); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 175
(Truk).
_Myiagra oceanica oceanica_ Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945,
p. 296 (Truk).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Caroline Islands--Truk.
_Characters._--Adult male: Resembles _M. o. freycineti_, but
larger with crown and nape less green and with less metallic
luster; lores and anterior forehead darker gray; chin, throat, and
sides of neck more buffy-cinnamon; back, rump, upper wing-coverts,
and scapulars less blue and more ashy gray; tibia, wings, and tail
more brownish.
Adult female: Resembles adult male, but smaller with less blue and
more gray on crown; lores and anterior forehead lighter.
Immature: Resembles adult, but crown and nape grayish, slate-blue;
under-parts paler.
_Measurements._--Measurements are listed in table 42.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 23 (12 males, 10 females, 1
unsexed), as follows: Caroline Islands, USNM--Truk, 2 (Feb. 16);
AMNH--Truk, 21 (Feb., June, Nov., Dec.).
_Nesting._--Hartert (1900:5) reports the taking of several nests in
the period from March to July by Owston's Japanese collectors. One
nest contained two eggs, the other nests contained one.
_Remarks._--The broadbill at Truk was first taken by Hombron and
Jacquinot, who called it "Platyrhynque océanien." Later, Kubary obtained
material which was studied by Finsch (1880e:575). In December, 1945,
McElroy of the NAMRU2 party examined two adults with enlarged gonads.
Specimens obtained by him at Truk were lost in shipment to the United
States. In coloration this subspecies is closest to _M. o. freycineti_;
in size it is closest to _M. o. pluto_.
=Myiagra oceanica pluto= Finsch