_Eudynamis taitiensis_ Finsch, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 8, 1875, p. 49 (Palau); _idem_, Journ. Mus. Godeffroy, 12, 1876, pp. 17, 20 (Ponapé); _idem_, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1877 (1878), p. 778 (Ponapé); _idem_, Journ. f. Ornith., 1880, pp. 284, 298 (Ponapé, Kuschai, Palaos, Marshalls); _idem_, Ibis, 1880, pp. 331, 332 (Taluit); _idem_, Ibis, 1881, pp. 104, 108, 113, 114 (Kushai, Uleai, Ponapé); Schmeltz and Krause, Ethnogr. Abth. Mus. Godeffroy, 1881, pp. 281, 299, 353 (Ponapé, Mortlock, Ruk); Christian, The Caroline Islands, 1899, p. 358 (Ponapé). _Urodynamis taitensis_ Finsch, Mitth. Ornith. Ver. Wien, 1884, p. 53 (Jaluit, Ponapé, Palau); Bogert, Amer. Mus. Novit., no. 933, 1937, p. 9 (Palau, Ruk, Kusaie, Ponapé, Truk, Iringlove, Wozzie, Auru, Jaluit, Ratak); Peters, Check-list Birds World, 4, 1940, p. 40 (Palaus, Carolines, Marshall); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 201 (Palau, Truk, Lukunor, Ponapé, Kusaie, Jaluit, Elmore, Aurh, Wotze). _Urodynamis taitiensis_ Wiglesworth, Abhandl. und Ber. Zool. Mus. Dresden, no. 6, 1890-1891 (1891), p. 11 (Pelew, Ualan, Ponapé, Luganor, Taluit); _idem_, Ibis, 1893, p. 212 (Marshalls); Hartert, Novit. Zool., 7, 1900, p. 7 (Ruk); Finsch, Notes Leyden Mus., 22, 1900, p. 120 (Ponapé, Palau, Kuschai, Ruk, Mortlock, Uleai, Jaluit); Takatsukasa and Kuroda, Tori, 1, 1915, p. 52 (Ruk); Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds Micronesia, 1922, p. 58 (Pelew, Ualan, Ponapé, Luganor, Ruk, Taluit); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p. 180 (Palau, Kusaie, Ponapé, Luganor, Truk, Jaluit, Elmore, Aurh, Wotze). _Urdynamis taitiensis_ Finsch, Sammulung wissensch. Vorträge, 14th ser., 1900, p. 659 (Palau). _Eudynamis taitiensis_ Schnee, Zool. Jahrbücher, 20, 1904, p. 389 (Marshalls); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 302 (Micronesia). _Geographic range._--Breeds in New Zealand and adjacent islands. Winters chiefly in Polynesia, also Melanesia and Micronesia. In Micronesia: Palau Islands--exact locality unknown; Caroline Islands--Yap, Lukunor, Truk, Ponapé, Kusaie; Marshall Islands--Jaluit, Elmore, Auru, Wotze, Bikini. _Characters._--Adult: A large, long-tailed cuckoo with upper parts dark brown; top of head spotted with white; wings, upper back and tail barred with rufous; underparts pale rufous or buffy-rufous with shafts of feathers streaked with brown. _Specimens examined._--Total number, 4 (2 males, 2 females), as follows: Caroline Islands, AMNH--Truk, 1 (Jan. 7)--Kusaie, 2 (March); Marshall Islands, USNM--Bikini, 1 (May 1).