Rufous-fronted Fantail

Rhipidura Uraniae Oustalet, Bull. Soc. Philom. Paris, (7), 5, 1881, p. 76. (Type locality, Mariannes = Guam.)

Rhipidura pectoralis Gray, Cat. Birds Trop. Is. Pacific Ocean, 1859, p. 17 (Ladrone or Marian Is. = Guam).

Rhipidura uraniae Reichenow and Schlow, Journ. f. Ornith., 1884, p. 398 (Mariannes = Guam); Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 53 (Guam); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 20 (Marianne = Guam); Büttikofer, Notes Leyden Mus., 15, 1893, p. 76 (Guam); Wheeler, Report Island of Guam, 1900, p. 13 (Guam); Matschie, Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, pp. 112, 113 (Guam); Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1, 1901, p. 48 (Guam); Safford, Osprey, 1902, p. 69 (Guam); Dubois, Syn. Avium, 1, 1902, p. 277 (Guam); Safford, The Plant World, 7, 1904, p. 263 (Guam); idem, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb., 9, 1905, p. 79 (Guam); Mearns, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 36, 1909, p. 477 (Guam); Schnee, Zeitschr. f. Naturwisch., 82, 1910, p. 464 (Marianen = Guam); Reichenow, Die Vögel, 2, 1914, p. 267 (Marianen = Guam); Cox, Island of Guam, 1917, p. 21 (Guam); Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 65 (Guam); Bryan, Guam Rec., vol. 13, no. 2, 1936, p. 25 (Guam).

Rhipidura atrigularis Reichenow, Journ. f. Ornith., 1885, p. 110 (Type locality, Palau, error = Guam); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 21 (Pelew, error = Guam); Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 63 (Marianne = Guam).

Rhipidura versicolor Oustalet (part), Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, (3), 7, 1895, p. 190 (Guam).

Rhipidura rufifrons uraniae Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 2, 1930, p. 490 (Marianne = Guam); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 176 (Guam); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 195 (Guam); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 295 (Guam); Watson, The Raven, 17, 1946, p. 42 (Guam); Mayr and Moynihan, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1321, 1946, pp. 3, 9 (Guam); Baker, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 59, 1946, p. 77 (Guam); idem, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 67 (Guam).

Rhipidura rufifrons Wharton, Ecol. Monogr., 16, 1948, p. 174 (Guam); Strophlet, Auk, 1946, p. 339 (Guam).

Geographic range.—Micronesia: Mariana Islands—Guam.

Characters.—Adult: Forehead and anterior crown near "cinnamon-buff"; lores and orbital ring black, auriculars more brownish than lores; malar stripe white; a few feathers in posterior malar region tipped with "citrine drab"; anterior part of chin white; posterior part of chin, throat, and upper breast black; feathers on breast edged with white; lower breast, abdomen, sides, flanks, tibia, vent, and under tail-coverts near "royal brown," becoming lighter on breast and more rufous on under tail-coverts; sides of neck and back near "Dresden brown," becoming grayer on neck and crown where feathers have darker shafts; rump and upper tail-coverts near "orange rufous"; basal half of tail slightly lighter than rump; terminal part of tail black, tipped with white; wings dark edged with coloring like back; under wing grayish with axillaries tipped with buffy-white; bill black with base of upper mandible lighter; feet dark brown; iris dark brown.