_Cinnyris rubrater_ Lesson, Dict. Sci. Nat., éd. Levrault, 50,
1827, p. 30. (Type locality, Oualan = Kusaie.)
_Cinnyris rubrater_ Lesson (part), Voy. "La Coquille," Zool., 2,
1828, pp. 433, 678 (Oualan); _idem_ (part), Man. d'Ornith., 2,
1828, p. 55 (Oualan); _idem_ (part), Traité d'Ornith., 1831, p.
299 (Oualan); Kittlitz (part), Kupfertaf. Naturgesch. Vögel, 1832,
p. 6, pl. 8, fig. 1 (Ualan); _idem_ (part), Denkw. Reise russ.
Amer. Micron. und Kamchat., 1, 1858, pp. 364, 381; 2, 1858, pp.
39, 49 (Ualan).
_Certhia Cardinalis_ Kittlitz, Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.
Pétersbourg, 2, 1835, p. 4 (Ualan).
_Cinnyris cardinalis_ Kittlitz, Obser. Zool., in Lutké, Voy. "Le
Séniavine," 3, 1836, p. 285 (Ualan).
_Myzomela sanguinolenta_ Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, 1, 1850, p. 394
(no loc. = Kusaie?).
_Myzomela rubrater_ Hartlaub (part), Archiv. f. Naturgesch., 18,
1852, pp. 109, 131 (Ualan); Finsch and Hartlaub, Fauna
Centralpolynesiens, 1867, p. 57 (Ualan).
_Myzomela rubratra_ Hartlaub (part), Journ. f. Ornith., 1854, p.
168 (Carolinen = Kusaie); _idem_ (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. London,
1867 (1868), p. 829 (Carolines = Kusaie); Hartlaub and Finsch
(part), Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872, p. 95 (Ualan); Giebel
(part), Thes. Ornith., 2, 1875, p. 681 (Carolinae = Kusaie);
Finsch (part), Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 12, 1876, p. 26 (Ualan);
Forbes (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1879, p. 271 (Ualan);
Finsch (part), Journ. f. Ornith., 1880, pp. 285, 298 (Kuschai);
_idem_ (part), Ibis, 1881, pp. 103, 108, 111 (Kuschai); _idem_
(part), Mitth. Ornith. Ver. Wien, 1884, p. 48 (Ualan); Hartert,
Kat. Vogelsamml. Senckenb., 1891, p. 31 (Ualan); Wiglesworth
(part), Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891
(1891), p. 31 (Ualan); Oustalet (part), Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist.
Nat. Paris, (3), 7, 1895, pp. 201, 202 (Kushai); Hartert (part),
Novit, Zool., 5, 1898, p. 56 (Ualan); Dubois (part), Syn. Avium,
1, 1902, p. 716 (Carolines = Kusaie).
_Certhia sanguinolenta_ Kittlitz, Denkw. Reise russ. Amer. Micron,
und Kamchat., 1, 1858, p. 364 (Ualan).
_Myzomela major_ Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Is. Pacific Ocean, 1859,
p. 11 (Oualan?).
_Myzomela rubrata_ Matschie (part), Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, p.
112 (Ualan).
_Myzomela rubratra rubratra_ Wetmore, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington,
30, 1917, p. 117 (Kusaie); Wetmore (part), in Townsend and
Wetmore, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoöl., 63, 1919, p. 219 (Kusaie);
Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, pp. 15, 20, 21, 22, (Kusaie);
Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 72 (Kusaie);
Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 2, 1930, p. 743 (Oualan);
Hand-list Japanese Birds (part), rev., 1932, p. 172 (Kusaie);
Hand-list Japanese Birds (part), 3d ed., 1942, p. 191 (Kusaie).
_Myzomela cardinalis rubratra_ Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific,
1945, p. 299 (Kusaie).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Caroline Islands--Kusaie.
_Characters._--Adult male: Head (except lores), neck back, rump,
upper tail-coverts, chin, throat, breast, and upper abdomen black
with feathers tipped with coloring between "scarlet" and
"scarlet-red"; rest of feathering black; bill long and curved and
black; feet black; iris dark brown.