_Ptilotis Marchei_ Oustalet, Le Nat., 1889, p. 260. (Type locality,
Saypan.)
_Cleptornis marchei_ Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus.
Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 35 (Saypan); Hartert, Novit.
Zool., 5, 1898, p. 56 (Saipan); Matschie, Journ. f. Ornith., 1901,
p. 112 (Saipan); Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1,
1901, p. 60 (Saipan); Dubois, Syn. Avium, 1, 1902, p. 722 (Marianne
= Saipan); Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 64 (Marianne
= Saipan); Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 75
(Saipan); Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 2, 1930, p. 788
(Saipan); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 171 (Saipan);
Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 190 (Saipan); Mayr,
Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 298 (Saipan); Stott, Auk, 64,
1947, p. 527 (Saipan).
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_Ptilotis (Cleptornis) marchei_ Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat.
Paris, (3), 7, 1895, p. 202 (Saypan).
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_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Saipan.
_Characters._--Adult: A small honey-eater with head, rump, and
underparts near "light cadmium" becoming lighter on the chin and
darker on the nape; back near "orange-citrine"; wings and tail
feathers brown with outer edges colored like back and inner edges
whitish; orbital ring pale yellow; breast, belly, sides, and under
tail- and upper tail-coverts near "raw sienna"; under wing-coverts
pale yellow; axillaries yellow; bill and feet light yellow-brown,
maxilla darker; iris chestnut-brown. Immature has lighter bill.
_Measurements._--Measurements are listed in table 47.