_Tatare mariannae_ Sharpe, Cat. Birds British Mus., 7, 1883, p.
528 (Marianne = Guam); Oustalet, Le Nat., 1889, p. 260 (Mariannes
= Guam).
_Acrocephalus luscinia_ Hartert, Novit. Zool., 5, 1898, p. 57
(Guam, Saipan); Seale, Occ. Papers Bernice P. Bishop Mus., 1,
1901, p. 53 (Guam, Saipan); Matschie, Journ. f. Ornith., 1901, pp.
112, 113 (Guam, Saipan); Safford, Osprey, 1902, p. 69 (Guam);
Dubois, Syn. Avium, 1, 1902, p. 369 (Marianne); Safford, Amer.
Anthro., 4, 1902, p. 711 (Guam); _idem_, The Plant World, 7, 1904,
p. 264 (Guam); _idem_, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb., 9, 1905, pp. 30,
79 (Guam); Reichenow, Die Vögel, 2, 1914, p. 545 (Marianen); Cox,
Island of Guam, 1917, p. 21 (Guam); Kuroda, in Momiyama, Birds
Micronesia, 1922, p. 67 (Guam, Saipan); Bryan, Guam Rec., vol. 13,
no. 2, 1936, p. 25 (Guam); Thompson, Guam and its people, 1942, p.
23 (Guam); Strophlet, Auk, 1946, p. 539 (Guam).
_Conopoderas luscinia_ Mathews, Syst. Avium Australasianarum, 2,
1930, p. 594 (Marianas); Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932, p.
177 (Marianas).
_Conopoderas luscinia hivae_ Yamashina, Bull. Biogeogr. Soc.
Japan, 12, 1942, p. 81 (Type locality, Saipan); Hand-list Japanese
Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 196 (Almagan, Saipan).
_Conopoderas luscinia luscinia_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed.,
1942, p. 197 (Guam).
_Acrocephalus luscinia luscinia_ Mayr (part), Birds Southwest
Pacific, 1945, p. 294 (Guam, Saipan, Almagan); Stott, Auk, 1947,
p. 526 (Saipan); Baker, Smithson. Misc. Coll., vol. 107, no. 15,
1948, p. 67 (Guam).
_Geographic range._--Micronesia: Mariana Islands--Guam, Saipan,
Almagan.
_Character._--Adult: A rather large warbler with long, curved
bill; upper parts near "Saccardo olive"; feathers of head grayer
because of darker shafts; rump paler and browner; lores dark;
supraloral stripe light buffy-yellow; auriculars, cheeks, and
sides of neck slightly darker; chin, throat, breast, and abdomen
pale buffy-yellow; tibia darker and more olivaceous-brown; under
tail-coverts pale yellow-buff; wing and tail feathers brown, edged
with ochraceous; under wing grayish, inner edges lighter;
axillaries pinkish-white; upper mandible dark horn colored; lower
mandible lighter yellow; feet light gray; iris brown. Female
resembles male but is slightly smaller.
TABLE 37. MEASUREMENTS OF _Acrocephalus luscinia_
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