_Ducula Oceanica oceanica_ Peters, Check-list Birds World, 3, 1937, p. 44 (Kusaie, Jaluit, Elmore); Bequaert, Mushi, 12, 1939, p. 81 (Kusaie); _idem_, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 16, 1941, p. 266 (Kusaie); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 212 (Kusaie, Jaluit, Elmore); Amadon, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 1237, 1943, p. 11 (Kusaie, Jaluit, Elmore); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 289 (Kusaie, Jaluit, Elmore). _Geographic range._--Micronesia: Caroline Islands--Kusaie; Marshall Islands--Jaluit, Elmore. _Characters._--Adult male: A large knob-billed pigeon with breast gray, washed with buff; head and neck dark gray; feathers at base of bill and on chin buff-white; abdomen and under tail-coverts near "burnt sienna," sides grayer; mantle, back, rump, upper tail-coverts, wings and tail bronze-green edged with a dark bluish sheen; under side of wing and under side of tail brown; bill and knob black; feet blackish-red; iris reddish-brown. Adult female resembles adult male but smaller and possibly a little darker bluish-green on back, wings, and tail. _D. o. oceania_ resembles _D. o. townsendi_, but is smaller with upper parts slightly darker and abdomen and under side of tail lighter. _Measurements._--Measurements are presented in table 27. _Specimens examined._--Total number, 47 (25 males, 22 females), as follows: Caroline Islands, USNM--Kusaie, 2 (Feb. 8, 9,); AMNH--Kusaie, 45 (Jan., Feb., March). _Parasites._--Bequaert (1939:81 and 1941:266) obtained the fly (Hippoboscidae) _Ornithoctona plicata_ from the pigeon at Kusaie. _Remarks._--The Micronesian Pigeon at Kusaie has been known since 1824, when from June 5 to June 15 of that year personnel from the corvette "La Coquille" visited the island and observed the bird. Kittlitz visited Kusaie and observed the pigeon in December, 1827, and January, 1828. Finsch (1880c and 1880d) found the bird in the Marshalls at Jaluit. Takatsukasa and Yamashina (1932:221) record the bird from Elmore in the Marshalls. Coultas (field notes) writes that the pigeon was numerous at Kusaie in 1931. He remarks that they appear stupid and are easily killed by the natives, who use a call to attract them. With regard to their habits he writes, "About four o'clock in the afternoon these birds begin congregating in the high trees of the lowlands close to the salt water where they roost for the night. At daybreak they begin migrating to the high mountain sides and peaks where they spend the time feeding." =Ducula oceanica ratakensis= (Takatsukasa and Yamashina) Micronesian Pigeon _Globecera oceanica ratakensis_ Takatsukasa and Yamashina, Dobutsu. Zasshi, 44, 1932, p. 221. (Type locality, Aruno.) _Columba australis_ Chamisso, in Kotzebue's, Voy. "Rurick," 3, 1821, p. 157 (Radak).