_Fringilla trichroa_ Kittlitz, Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.
Pétersbourg, 2, 1835, p. 8, pl. 10. (Type locality, Ualan =
Kusaie.)
_Fringilla trichroa_ Kittlitz, Obser. Zool., in Lutké, Voy. "Le
Séniavine," 3, 1836, p. 285 (Ualan); _idem_, Denk. Reise russ.
Amer. Micron. und Kamchat., 2, 1858, p. 38 (Ualan).
_Estrelda trichroa_ Gray, Genera Birds, 2, 1849, p. 369 (Kusaie?);
Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Is. Pacific Ocean, 1859, p. 27 (Oualan).
_Erythrura trichroa_ Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, 1, 1850, p. 457
(Ualan); Hartlaub, Archiv f. Naturgesch., 18, 1852, p. 133
(Carolinen = Kusaie); _idem_, Journ. f. Ornith., 1854, p. 168
(Carolinen = Kusaie); Gray, Hand-list Birds, 2, 1870, p. 58
(Ualan); Giebel, Thes. Ornith., 2, 1875, p. 118 (Carolinen =
Ualan); Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 12, 1876, p. 36 (Ualan);
_idem_ (part), Journ. f. Ornith., 1880, pp. 290, 297, 302
(Kusaie); _idem_ (part), Ibis, 1881, pp. 104, 108 (Kuschai);
Salvadori (part), Ornith. Papuasia, 2, 1881, p. 442 (Carolinis =
Kusaie?); Schmeltz and Krause (part), Ethnogr. Abth. Mus.
Godeffroy, 1881, p. 281 (Kusaie); Sclater (part), Ibis, 1881, p.
545 (Ualan); Sharpe (part), Cat. Birds British Mus., 13, 1890, p.
385 (Carolines = Kusaie); Wiglesworth (part), Abhandl. und Ber.
Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 42 (Ualan);
Matschie (part), Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, p. 112 (Ualan); Dubois
(part), Syn. Avium, 1, 1902, pp. 583 (Carolines = Kusaie);
Takatsukasa and Kuroda (part), Tori, 1, 1915, p. 64 (Kusaie).
_Erythrura kittlitzi_ Bonaparte, Consp. Avium, 1, 1850, p. 457
(_ex_ Bonaparte MSS.) (Type locality, Ualan); Gray, Hand-list
Birds, 2, 1870, p. 58 (Caroline Islands = Kusaie).
_Erythrura trichros trichros_ Hartert (part), Novit. Zool., 7,
1900, p. 6 (Kusaie); Kuroda (part), in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia,
1922, pp. 27, 29, 78 (Kusaie); Mayr (part), Amer. Mus. Novit., no.
489, 1931, p. 4 (Kusaie); Takatsukasa and Yamashina, Tori, 7,
1931, p. 110 (Kusaie); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p.
170 (Kusaie); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 189
(Kusaie); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 302 (Kusaie).
_Chloromunia trichroa trichroa_ Mathews (part), Syst. Avium
Australasianarum, 2, 1930, p. 840 (Ualan).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Caroline Islands--Kusaie.
_Characters._--Adult: A small finch with thick, stout bill; head,
neck, back, and scapulars between "parrot green" and "grass
green"; forehead, orbital area, auriculars, and malar area bluish;
sides of neck green tinged with yellowish; edge of forehead and
lores blackish; wing-coverts and outer margins of wings
yellowish-green; underparts like back but paler green; rump, upper
tail-coverts and outer edges of tail feathers near "Pompeian red";
wing and tail feathers mostly brownish; bend of wing greenish;
under wing-coverts brownish; axillaries buffy tinged with
greenish; bill black; feet light yellowish-brown; iris brown.
Adult female duller than male.
Immature: Resembles adult, but lacks bluish coloring on sides of
head and on forehead; underparts washed with buffy brown; rump and
tail duller carmine.
_Measurements._--Measurements are listed in table 53.
_Specimens examined._--Total number, 14 (12 males, 2 females), from
Caroline Islands, AMNH--Kusaie (Feb., March, April).
_Molt._--Specimens taken in February and March have mostly new
feathers, molt having been almost completed when obtained.
_Remarks._--Kittlitz was the first person to describe the Blue-faced
Parrot-finch; he found it at Kusaie when he visited the island in the
winter of 1827-28. Later, it was found to have an extensive range in
Micronesia, Melanesia, northern Australia, Celebes, and the Moluccas.
This small finch may be kept as a pet in a cage by native peoples, but
as far as I know there is no evidence that the bird has been introduced
to island areas as a result of this practice.