Carpophaga nuchalis Cabanis, Jour. für Orn. (1882), 126; Salvadori,
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1893), 21, 190; Grant, Ibis (1895), 116;
Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 487; Sharpe, Hand-List (1899), 1, 64.
Muscadivora nuchalis McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 11.
Calayan (McGregor); Camiguin N. (McGregor); Fuga (Whitehead);
Luzon (Whitehead); Mindoro (teste Hartert).
This species has been established on the character of a cupreous
chestnut nape; otherwise it differs but slightly from M. chalybura
with which it appears to intergrade. Its status is somewhat doubtful.