NO. 1116. 



PBOCEEDINGS OF THE XATIONAL MUSEUM. 



591 



Range. — Interti'opical and subtropical seas in general. Galapagos 

 Archipelago : Ko special locality (Darwin, Kinberg) ; Chatham, Barring- 

 ton, Tower, and Bindloe islands (Baur an<l Adams). 



ASCERTAINED RANGE OF THE GENUS FREGATA, CUVIEli, IN THE GALAPAGOS ARCHI- 

 PELAGO. 



1. Fregafa aqiiiJa (Linuii^us). 



2. Fregafa aquUa minor (Gmelin). 



FREGATA AQUILA MINOR (Gmelin). 



Pel ecatius minor, Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, 1788, p. .572. 



Tachypetes minor , Bonaparte, Coiisp. Av.. II, 1855, p. 167 (part: excl. syn. Attagen 



artel, Gould'). 

 Fregaia minor, Ridgway, in Baird, Brewer aud Ridgway's Water Birds N. Aiiier., 



II, 1884, p. 128; Manual N. Amer. Birds, 1887, p. 8.3. 



Range. — Central Pacific and Indian oceans. Ac(;idental (?) in the 

 Galapagos Archipelago: Tower Island (Baur and Adams). 



'A totally distinct species, easily recognized by tlie white flank-patch of the adult 

 male and other perfectly obvious characters. (See p. 592.) 



