_Myzomela rubratra kurodai_ Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p.
17. (Type locality, Yap.)
_Myzomela rubratra_ Hartlaub and Finsch (part), Proc. Soc. London,
1872, pp. 89, 94 (Uap); Gräffe, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 2, 1873, p.
122 (Yap); Finsch (part), Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875, p. 4
(Yap); Forbes (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1879, p. 271 (Yap);
Wiglesworth (part), Abhandl. und. Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6,
1890-1891 (1891), p. 31 (Uap); Oustalet (part), Nouv. Arch. Mus.
Hist. Nat. Paris, (3), 7, 1895, p. 202 (Yap); Takatsukasa and
Kuroda (part), Tori, 1, 1915, p. 64 (Yap); Kuroda, Dobutsu.
Zasshi, 27, 1915, pp. 331, 332 (Yap).
_Myzomela rubrata_ Matschie (part), Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, p.
112 (Yap).
_Myzomela rubrata kurodai_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia,
1922, p. 74 (Yap); Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 2, 1930,
p. 743 (Yap); Hand-list Japanese Birds (part), rev., 1932, p. 172
(Yap); Hand-list Japanese Birds (part), 3d ed., 1942, p. 190
(Yap).
_Myzomela cardinalis kurodai_ Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945,
p. 299 (Yap).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Caroline Islands--Yap.
_Characters._--Adult male: According to Momiyama (1922:17), _M. c.
kurodai_ is "Similar to _M. r. saffordi_ Wetmore from Southern
Marianne islands, but the tarsus is decidedly shorter, not
exceeding 21 mm. (more than 21 mm. in _M. r. saffordi_), and the
colour of plumage is not so much tinged with vermillion. It
differs from _M. r. rubratra_, _M. r. dichromata_, and _M. r.
wetmorei_ by the body measuring much shorter, and by the scarlet
colour of plumage being less pronounced. The length of bill in _M.
r. wetmorei_ and _kurodai_ is nearly the same."
Adult female: According to Momiyama (1922:17), "Upper-parts of
body dark olivaceous brown; under-parts, including chin, throat
and fore neck like upper-parts, but somewhat paler; breast and
abdomen yellowish ashy-white; head, lower back, rump, upper
tail-coverts, chin, throat as well as lower breast tinged with
scarlet (the red colour more distinct on lower back but less so on
lower breast); pale olive margin to the outer web of
flight-feathers."
_Measurements._--Measurements are listed in table 48.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 2 males, from Caroline
Islands, AMNH--Yap (Sept.).
_Remarks._--This subspecies is tentatively recognized as distinct from
_M. c. kobayashii_ of Palau. No female has been examined, and the two
males seen and the description by Momiyama indicate that the population
at Yap closely resembles the one at Palau. The Hand-list of Japanese
Birds (Hachisuka _et al._, 1932:172) places the birds from Yap and Palau
in the same subspecies.
=Myzomela cardinalis kobayashii= Momiyama