Geographic range.—Micronesia: Palau Islands—Babelthuap, Koror, Garakayo, Peleliu, Ngabad.
Characters.—Adult: Upper parts near "cinnamon-rufous," slightly lighter on the upper wing-coverts, scapulars, edges of inner secondaries, and rump; lores blackish; orbital ring and auriculars dark brown; chin, upper throat, and malar region white; lower throat and upper breast black with ashy-gray sides; lower breast whitish; rest of underparts like back but slightly paler; wings dark; tail black with tips rufous, inner rectrices with rufous tips narrower than on tail; under wing-coverts and axillaries broadly edged with rufous; bill blackish, lower mandible whitish at base; feet brownish; iris dark brown. Female slightly smaller.
Immature: Resembles adult, but head and neck brown; throat coloring dingy; patch on breast blackish cinnamon. Younger individuals may be more tinged with rufous above and below.
Measurements.—Measurements are listed in [table 39].
Table 39. Measurements of Rhipidura lepida
Table 39. Measurements of Rhipidura lepida
| Number and Sex | Wing | Tail | Culmen | Tarsus |
| 7 adult males | 80 | 89 | 15.5 | 23.3 |
| (77-83) | (85-94) | (14.5-16.0) | (23.0-24.0) | |
| 7 adult females | 77 | 86 | 15.5 | 22.5 |
| (76-79) | (83-88) | (14.5-15.0) | (21.7-23.0) |
Specimens examined.—Total number, 18 (9 males, 9 females), as follows: Palau Islands, USNM—Koror, 2 (Nov. 6, 18)—Babelthuap, 1 (Nov. 27)—Peleliu, 4 (Aug. 29, 30, 31); AMNH—exact locality not given, 11 (Nov., Dec.).
Molt.—Some of the birds taken in August are in molt. Specimens taken in November and December are mostly in fresh plumage. Apparently this bird molts in late summer and early fall.