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and it probably finds nesting places on some of the more isolated rocks. 

 Gannets lay tlieir chalky white eggs in the sand or construct flat nests of 

 sticks which they place in bushes or trees. One or two eggs are deposited 

 in a nest. 



Family FREGATID^. 



Bill long and strongly hooked, both mandibles decurved at tip; lateral 

 grooves deep; nostrils situated in the grooves and practically closed; a 

 large naked and brightly colored gular pouch ; wings pointed and ex- 

 tremely long ; first primary longest ; tail long and very deeply forked ; 

 feet absurdly small and weak for so large a bird ; claw of middle toe 

 pectinate; tarsus very short; plumage Idack with beautiful green and 

 purple gloss. 



C4enus FREGATA Lacepede, 1799. 



Characters same as those given for the Family. 



Species. 

 fl'. Breast and sides black (males). 



6\ Larger; culmen, 92 to 112 mm.; wing. 520 to (i5.5 ; no white patch on flank. 



aquila (p. 206) 

 h". Smaller; culmen. .58 to 89 mm.; wing, 488 to 533; a white patch on each flank. 



arid (p. 207) 

 fl'-. Breast and sides white (females). 



b^. Larger; culmen. 109 to 132 nun.; wing. 012 to 078: no white collar romid 



back of neck aquila (p. 206) 



b'-. Smaller; culmen, 81 to 91 mm.; wing, 510 to 528; a white collar round back 

 of neck arlel (p. 207) 



170. FREGATA AQUILA (Linna>us). 



GREATER MAN-O-WAR BIRD. 



Pelecaniis a<jiiiliis Lixx.EUS, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 133. 



Fregata aquila Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. :Mus. (1898), 26, 543; Sh.\rpe. 



Hand-List (1899), 1, 237; Gates, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1902), 2, 212; 



McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List ( 1900), 40. 



Sa-la-giin-ting', Manila; laug-y-san'. Cagayancillo. 



Cagayancillo { Mc(lregur) . Tropical and sul)troi>ical oceans of both hemispheres. 



Adult ttialc. — General color black, l)ecoming sooty below; feathers of 

 head, upper back, and scapulars elongate and pointed ; head with slight 

 oil-green gloss ; scapulars strongh' glossed with l)i"onze-green, tliis color 

 changing to purple when specimen is held away from the light; a trace 

 of green and purple gloss on breast and sides. Iris brown ; bill black 

 except the tip which is horn-gray; gular pouch dark crimson; feet 

 blackish brown, flesh-colored ])elow; webs bluish below; nails brown. 

 Extent of wings, 1,830; length of bird, 914; wing, OO'O ; tail, 410; depth 

 of fork, 240; culmen from base, 105; tarsus, 20. Grant gives the follow- 

 ing measurements: Length, about 1,01(! ; culmen, from feathers on fore- 

 head, 91 to \\->\ wing, D-n to ()-).■-); tail, ^^^h to 370; tarsus, 18." 



