The Avifauna of Micronesia, Its Origin, Evolution, and Distribution

by Rollin H. Baker

Tephras finschii Hartlaub, in Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, p. 6, pl. 3. (Type locality, Pelew Islands.)

Tephras finschii Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1868, pp. 117, 118 (Pelew Islands).

Zosterops finschii Gray, Hand-list Birds, 1, 1869, p. 164 (Pelew); Gadow, Cat. Birds British Mus., 9, 1884, p. 197 (Pelew); Bolau, Mitteil. Naturhist. Mus. Hamburg, 1898, p. 60 (Palau).

Zosterops finschi Hartlaub and Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1872, pp. 89, 96 (Pelew); Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875, pp. 4, 17 (Palau); idem, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 12, 1876, p. 27 (Palau); Giebel, Thes. Ornith., 3, 1877, p. 775 (Pelew); Finsch, Journ. f. Ornith., 1880, p. 300 (Pelew?); Schmeltz and Krause, Ethnogr. Abth. Mus. Godeffroy, 1881, p. 407 (Palau); Tristram, Cat. Birds, 1889, p. 211 (Pelew); Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 36 (Pelew); Finsch, Das Tierreich, no. 15, 1901, p. 45 (Palau); Dubois, Syn. Avium, 1, 1902, p. 713 (Pelew); Reichenow, Die Vögel, 2, 1914, p. 470 (Palau); Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, pp. 55, 64 (Pelew); Stresemann, Mitt. Zool. Mus. Berlin, 17, 1931, p. 230 (Palau); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 173 (Palau); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 192 (Babelthuap, Koror).

Tephras finschi Matschie, Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, pp. 112, 113 (Palau); Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 77 (Pelew); Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 2, 1930, p. 712 (Pelew).

Zosterops cinerea finschi Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 300 (Palau).

Zosterops cinerea finschii Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 74 (Peleliu, Garakayo).

Geographic range.—Micronesia: Palau Islands—Babelthuap, Koror, Garakayo, Peleliu, Ngabad.

Characters.—Adult: Resembles adult of Z. c. cinerea, but upper parts mostly browner; wing and tail feathers browner; head blacker; rump lighter than back; auriculars grayish-brown; lores dark; sides of head and neck brownish; underparts mostly dark; chin and throat smoky gray; breast and abdomen more brown less gray; sides, flanks and under tail-coverts brown. Resembles adult of Z. c. ponapensis, but larger with underparts more buffy; upper parts darker.

Measurements.—Measurements are listed in [table 51].