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.
Myiagra oceanica pluto Finsch
Micronesian Broadbill
Myiagra pluto Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1875 (1876), p. 644. (Type locality, Ponapé.)
Myiagra pluto Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 12, 1876, pp. 17, 19 (Ponapé); idem, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877 (1878), p. 779 (Ponapé); Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus., 4, 1879, p. 380 (Ponapé); Nehrkorn, Journ. f. Ornith. 1879, p. 404 (Ponapé); Finsch, Journ. f. Ornith., 1880, p. 288 (Ponapé); idem, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1880, p. 576 (Ponapé); idem, Ibis, 1881, pp. 110, 112, 115 (Ponapé); Schmeltz and Krause, Ethnogr. Abth. Mus. Godeffroy, 1881, p. 280 (Ponapé); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 23 (Ponapé); Oustalet, Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, (3), 7, 1895, p. 195 (Ponapi); Bolau, Mitteil. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, 1898, p. 55 (Ponapé); Nehrkorn, Kat. Eiers., 1899, p. 26 (Ponapé); Christian, The Caroline Islands, 1899, p. 358 (Ponapé); Matschie, Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, pp. 111, 112, 113 (Ponapé); Dubois, Syn. Avium, 1, 1902, p. 283 (Ponapi); Reichenow, Die Vögel, 2, 1914, p. 260 (Ponapé); Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 54 (Ponapé); Wetmore, in Townsend and Wetmore, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zoöl., 63, 1919, p. 204 (Ponapé); Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 64 (Ponapé); Mayr, Proc. 6th Pacific Sci. Congr., 4, 1941, p. 204 (Ponapé); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 195 (Ponapé).
Submyiagra pluto Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 2, 1930, p. 505 (Ponapé); Yamashina, Tori, 1, 1932, p. 401 (Ponapé); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 176 (Ponapé).
Myiagra oceanica pluto Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 296 (Ponapé).
Geographic range.—Micronesia: Caroline Islands—Ponapé.