During our stay at Peleliu we were unable to learn whether the pigeon
was still present at Pulo Anna (Current Island), a coral island some 160
miles southeast of Peleliu. The U. S. Navy frequently dispatched a ship
to the island, but we did not learn of it until our stay at Peleliu was
nearly over. Dr. C. K. Dorsey, then of the U. S. Naval Epidemiology Unit
at Peleliu, reported that various kinds of birds were numerous at Pulo
Anna, but he did not recall seeing the pigeon. This pigeon may occur
also at Fais, a raised coral island west of Yap and Ulithi in the
Carolines. I know of no reports dealing with the avifauna of this
phosphate island, but I examined several pictures, taken by Navy landing
parties and the Military Government personnel, which show the island to
be covered with extensive and luxuriant vegetation. I suspect that an
intensive survey of the island will reveal several new records for
birds.
=Ducula oceanica teraokai= (Momiyama)
Micronesian Pigeon
_Globicera oceanica teraokai_ Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p.
2. (Type locality, Tol, Truk Islands.)
_Columba oceanica_ Kittlitz (part), Kupfertaf. Naturgesch. Vögel,
3, 1833, p. 25, pl. 33, fig. 1 (Lugunor); _idem_ (part), Obser.
Zool., in Lutké, Voy. "Le Séniavine," 3, 1836, p. 299 (Lougounor);
Hartlaub (part), Archiv f. Naturgesch., 18, 1852, pp. 115, 185,
(Mordlockinseln).
_Carpophaga (Globicera) pacifica_ Gray (part), Cat. Birds Trop.
Is. Pacific Ocean, 1859, p. 41 (Mortlock's Island).
_Carpophaga pacifica_ Finsch and Hartlaub, Fauna
Centralpolynesiens, 1867, p. 146 (Lugunor).
_Carpophaga oceanica_ Finsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1880, p.
576 (Ruk); Schmeltz and Krause (part), Ethnogr. Abth. Mus.
Godeffroy, 1881, pp. 330, 353 (Nukuor, Ruk); Wiglesworth (part),
Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p.
52 (Luganor, Ruk, Nukuor); Hartert, Novit. Zool., 7, 1900, p. 8
(Ruk).
_Globicera oceanica_ Salvadori (part), Cat. Birds British Mus.,
21, 1893, p. 176 (Ruk); Takatsukasa and Kuroda (part), Tori, 1,
1915, p. 52 (Ruk).
_Globicera oceanica teraokai_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, 1922, p. 55 (Ruk, ?Mortlock, ?Nukuor); Mathews, Syst.
Avium Australasianarum, 1, 1927, p. 45 (Ruk); Hand-list Japanese
Birds, rev., 1932, p. 189 (Truk).
_M[uscadivora] o[ceanica] oceanica_ Neumann (part), Verhandl.
Ornith. Ges. Bayern, 25, 1922, p. 234 (Ualam = Truk).
_Ducula oceanica teraokai_ Peters, Check-list Birds World, 3, 1937,
p. 43 (Truk); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 212
(Truk); Amadon, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1237, 1943, p. 11 (Truk);
Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 289 (Truk).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Caroline Islands--Truk, ?Lukunor,
?Nukuoro.
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