_Phlegoenas xanthonura_ Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 60 (Guam, Saipan); Wheeler, Report Island of Guam, 1900, p. 13 (Guam); Matschie, Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, p. 113 (Guam, Saipan); Safford, Amer. Anthro., 4, 1902, p. 711 (Guam); _idem_, Osprey, 1902, p. 68 (Mariannas); _idem_, The Plant World, 7, 1904, p. 264 (Guam); _idem_, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb., 9, 1905, p. 78 (Guam); Cox, Island of Guam, 1917, p. 20 (Guam). _Phlogoenas xanthonura_ Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1, 1901, p. 42 (Marianas); Reichenow, Die Vögel, 1, 1913, p. 331 (Mariannen); Bryan, Guam Rec., vol. 13, no. 2, 1936, p. 24 (Guam). _Phlegoenas xanthonura xanthonura_ Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 54 (Guam, Rota, Saipan). _Phlegoenas xanthonura yapensis_ Kuroda, in Momoyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 54 (Yap). _Gallicolumba xanthonura_ Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 1, 1927, p. 75 (Marianas, Mackenzie); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 189 (Pagan, Almagan, Saipan, Tinian, Rota, Mackenzie); Mayr, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 828, 1936, p. 4 (Marianne); Peters, Check-list Birds World, 3, 1937, p. 136 (Marianne, Yap); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 211 (Yap, Assongsong, Pagan, Almagan, Saipan, Tinian, Rota); Strophlet, Auk, 1946, p. 538 (Guam); Wharton, Ecol. Monogr., 16, 1946, p. 174 (Guam); Baker, Condor, 49, 1947, p. 125 (Guam). _Gallicolumba canifrons yapensis_ Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 1, 1927, p. 74 (Yap). _Terricolumba xanthonura_ Yamashina, Tori, 10, 1940, p. 677 (Assongsong). _Gallicolumba xanthonura xanthonura_ Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 290 (Marianas, Yap); Watson, The Raven, 17, 1946, p. 41 (Guam); Stott, Auk, 1947, p. 526 (Saipan); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15, 1948, p. 61 (Guam, Rota Yap). _Gallecolumba xanthonura xanthonura_ Downs, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 49, 1946, p. 96 (Tinian). [Illustration: FIG. 14. Geographic distribution of _Gallicolumba_ of Micronesia and Eastern Polynesia and routes of its dispersal. (1) _G. jobiensis_; (2) _G. x. kubaryi_; (3) _G. x. xanthonura_; (4) _G. erythroptera_; (5) _G. rubescens_.] _Geographic range._--Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Asuncion, Pagan, Almagan, Saipan, Tinian, Rota, Guam; Caroline Islands--Yap. _Characters._--Adult male: Forehead, face, chin, throat, and upper breast white, lightly washed with pale buff; crown, occiput, sides of head, and nape rusty brown to dark brown; rest of upper parts dark bronze-olive; feathers of mantle and upper wing-coverts broadly edged with metallic purple-violet; primaries, under wing-coverts and axillaries brown; tail, lower breast and rest of underparts dark brown; bill and feet dark brown.