Cardinal Honey-eater
Myzomela rubratra kobayashii Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 19. (Type locality, Pelew Islands.)
Cinnyris rubrater Lesson (part), Dict. Sci. Nat., éd., Levrault, 50, 1827, p. 30 (Pelew); idem (part), Voy. "La Coquille," Zool., 1, 1828, p. 678 (Pelew); idem (part), Man. d'Ornith., 2, 1828, p. 55 (Pelew).
Myzomela rubratra Gray (part), Cat. Birds Trop. Is. Pacific Ocean, 1859, p. 11 (Pelew); Hartlaub (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1867 (1868), p. 829 (Pelew); Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, pp. 5, 116, 118 (Pelew); Gray (part), Hand-list Birds, 1, 1869, p. 154 (Pelew); Hartlaub and Finsch (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872, pp. 89, 94 (Pelew); Finsch (part), Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875, pp. 4, 16 (Palau); idem (part), Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 12, 1876, pp. 17, 26 (Palau); Forbes (part), Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1879, p. 270 (Pelew); Finsch (part), Mitth. Ornith. Ver. Wien, 1884, p. 48 (Palau); Gadow, Cat. Birds British Mus., 9, 1884, p. 129 (Pelew); Tristram, Cat. Birds, 1889, p. 206 (Pelew); Wiglesworth (part), Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 31 (Pelew); Oustalet (part), Nouv. Arch. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris, (3), 7, 1895, p. 202 (Palaos); Nehrkorn, Kat. Eiers., 1899, p. 79 (Palau-inseln); Seale (part), Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1, 1901, p. 57 (Pelew); Reichenow (part), Die Vögel, 2, 1914, p. 482 (Palau); Takatsukasa and Kuroda (part), Tori, 1, 1915, p. 64 (Pelew).
Myzomela rubratra Nehrkorn (part), Journ. f. Ornith., 1879, p. 397 (Palau); Matschie (part), Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, p. 112 (Palau); Takatsukasa and Kuroda (part), Tori, 1, 1915, p. 55 (Pelew); Kuroda, Dobutsu. Zasshi, 28, 1916, p. 71 (Pelew).
Myzomela rubratra kobayshii Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 74 (Pelew); Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 2, 1930, p. 722 (Pelew).
Myzomela rubratra kurodai Hand-list Japanese Birds (part), rev., 1932, p. 172 (Palau); Hand-list Japanese Birds (part), 3d ed., 1942, p. 190 (Babelthuap, Koror, Peleliu).
Myzomela rubratra kurodai Yamashina, Tori, 10, 1940, p. 674 (Palau).
Myzomela cardinalis kobayashii Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 299 (Palau); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 72 (Peleliu).
Geographic range.—Micronesia: Palau Islands;—Babelthuap, Koror, Garakayo, Peleliu, Angaur.