Myiagra oceanica oceanica Pucheran
Micronesian Broadbill
Myiagra oceanica Pucheran, Voy. Pôle Sud, Zool., 3, 1853, p. 77. (Type locality, Hogoleu = Truk.)
Myiagra oceanica Hartlaub, Journ. f. Ornith., 1854, p. 168 (Carolinen = Truk); Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Is. Pacific Ocean, 1859, p. 18 (Hogoleu = Truk); Finsch and Hartlaub, Fauna Centralpolynesiens, 1867, p. 94 (Hogoleu = Truk); Gray, Hand-list Birds, 1, 1869, p. 328 (Caroline Is. = Truk); Pelzeln, Journ. f. Ornith., 1875, p. 51 (Hogoleu = Truk); Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus., 4, 1879, p. 383 (Hogoleu = Truk); Nehrkorn, Journ. f. Ornith., 1879, p. 403 (Ruk); Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1880, p. 575 (Ruk); Oustalet, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, (7), 5, 1881, p. 73 (Carolines = Truk); Schmeltz and Krause, Ethnogr. Abth. Mus. Godeffroy, 1881, p. 353 (Ruk); Reichenow and Schalow, Journ. f. Ornith., 1884, p. 395 (Carolines = Truk); Tristram, Cat. Birds, 1889, p. 200 (Ruk); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 23 (Ruk); Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, (3), 7, 1895, p. 196 (Hogoleu = Truk); Nehrkorn, Kat. Eiers., 1899, p. 30 (Ruk); Hartert, Novit. Zool., 7, 1900, p. 5 (Ruk); Matschie, Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, pp. 111, 112, 113 (Ruck); Dubois, Syn. Avium, 1, 1902, p. 283 (Hogoleu = Truk); Reichenow, Die Vögel, 2, 1914, p. 260 (Karolinen = Truk); Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 54 (Ruk); Wetmore, in Townsend and Wetmore, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoöl., 63, 1919, p. 204 (Truk); Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 64 (Ruk); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 195 (Truk); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 68 (Truk).
Myiagra albiventris Finsch and Hartlaub, Fauna Centralpolynesiens, 1867, p. 93 (Hoguleu = Truk); Giebel, Thes. Ornith., 2, 1875, p. 658 (Carolinae = Truk).
Submyiagra oceanica Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 2, 1930, p. 505 (Ruk); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 175 (Truk).
Myiagra oceanica oceanica Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 296 (Truk).
Geographic range.—Micronesia: Caroline Islands—Truk.
Characters.—Adult male: Resembles M. o. freycineti, but larger with crown and nape less green and with less metallic luster; lores and anterior forehead darker gray; chin, throat, and sides of neck more buffy-cinnamon; back, rump, upper wing-coverts, and scapulars less blue and more ashy gray; tibia, wings, and tail more brownish.
Adult female: Resembles adult male, but smaller with less blue and more gray on crown; lores and anterior forehead lighter.
Immature: Resembles adult, but crown and nape grayish, slate-blue; under-parts paler.
Measurements.—Measurements are listed in [table 42].
Specimens examined.—Total number, 23 (12 males, 10 females, 1 unsexed), as follows: Caroline Islands, USNM—Truk, 2 (Feb. 16); AMNH—Truk, 21 (Feb., June, Nov., Dec.).
Nesting.—Hartert (1900:5) reports the taking of several nests in the period from March to July by Owston's Japanese collectors. One nest contained two eggs, the other nests contained one.
Remarks.—The broadbill at Truk was first taken by Hombron and Jacquinot, who called it "Platyrhynque océanien." Later, Kubary obtained material which was studied by Finsch (1880e:575). In December, 1945, McElroy of the NAMRU2 party examined two adults with enlarged gonads. Specimens obtained by him at Truk were lost in shipment to the United States. In coloration this subspecies is closest to M. o. freycineti; in size it is closest to M. o. pluto.