_Ducula oceanica townsendi_ Peters, Check-list Birds World, 3, 1937, p. 44 (Ponapé); Bequaert, Mushi, vol. 12, no. 2, 1939, pp. 81, 82 (Ponapé); _idem_, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 16, 1941, pp. 266, 290 (Ponapé); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 212 (Ponapé); Amadon, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1237, 1943, p. 11 (Ponapé); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 289 (Ponapé). _Geographic range._--Micronesia: Caroline Islands--Ponapé. _Characters._--Adult: Resembles _D. o. teraokai_, but darker. Resembles. closely _D. o. oceanica_ but larger and darker on crown and nape; lower parts slightly paler but chin more cream-buff in color. As Adamon (1943:11) states, there is little difference between _D. o. townsendi_ and _D. o. oceanica_ except in size. _Measurements._--Measurements are listed in table 27. _Specimens examined._--Total number 21 (11 males, 9 females, 1 unsexed), as follows: Caroline Islands, USNM--Ponapé, 2 (Feb. 11, 12); AMNH--Ponapé, 19 (Nov. 22, 29, Dec. 1, 2, 3). _Nesting._--Coultas (field notes) writes that the pigeon at Ponapé nests the year around, probably two or three times a year. He describes the nest as being made of loose twigs and as placed on a fork of a limb in a tall tree. One egg is laid. Coultas saw "two or three" females nesting in December. _Parasites._--Bequaert (1939:81, 82 and 1941:266, 290) found the flies (Hippoboscidae), _Ornithoctona plicata_ and _O. pusilla_, on pigeons from Ponapé. _Remarks._--Coultas (field notes) writes that in 1930 several Japanese made a livelihood as professional hunters of pigeons at Ponapé. He notes, "Two or three years ago, 4 or 5 Japanese, each, averaged from 75 to 100 birds per day, which they sold to the inhabitants for 35 sen (17-1/2 cents) per bird.... Now these same hunters are fortunate if they obtain 4 or 5 Ducula each per day and are able to do so only by starting before daylight and covering great distances. Other birds are now replacing Ducula on the market." Coultas further records in his notes that the hunters used calls to attract the pigeons. In 1930, Coultas regarded the pigeon at Ponapé as a rapidly disappearing species; he found it only in small areas in remote regions of the mountains. With the shipping of supplies cut off to the Japanese garrison forces at Ponapé, as well as at Kusaie, Truk, and Yap by the effective American blockade during the latter part of the war, it is probable that the pigeons were hunted more intensively by the Japanese hunting parties than ever before. Richards obtained two specimens at Ponapé in the period from August, 1947, to January, 1948. =Ducula oceanica oceanica= (Lesson and Garnot) Micronesian Pigeon _Columba oceanica_ Lesson and Garnot, Dict. Sci. Nat., éd., Levrault, 40, 1826, p. 316. (Type locality, Oualan = Kusaie.)