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and it probably finds nesting places on some of the more isolated rocks. 
Gannets lay their chalky white eggg 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 FREGATIDA. 
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 black with beautiful green and 
purple gloss. 
Genus FREGATA Lacépéde, 1799. 
Characters same as those given for the Family. 
Species. 
a. Breast and sides black (males). 
b*. Larger; culmen, 92 to 112 mm.; wing, 520 to 655; no white patch on flank. 
aquila (p. 206) 
b’. Smaller; culmen, 58 to 89 mm.; wing, 488 to 533; a white patch on each flank. 
ariel (p. 207) 
a. Breast and sides white (females). 
6‘. Larger; culmen, 109 to 132 mm.; wing, 612 to 678; no white collar round 
Ibaek“otenedh: sho 2) eek rte te AR a Sate a ose ees IR OES aquila (p. 206) 
b*, Smaller; culmen, 81 to 91 mm.; wing, 510 to 528; a white collar round back 
(opi eet) eats po pa epee «WM SUPERS Bunks Aol SCRE ee Oe, Je 7a re Oa op SU a ariel (p. 207) 
170. FREGATA AQUILA (Linneus). 
GREATER MAN-0O’-WAR BIRD, 
Pelecanus aquilus LINN US, Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1758), 1, 133. 4 
Fregata aquila GRANT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1898), 26, 543; SHARPE, 
Hand-List (1899), 1, 237; Oates, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1902), 2, 212; 
McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 40. 
Sa-la-gun-ting’, Manila; lang-y-san’, Cagayancillo. 
Cagayancillo (McGregor). Tropical and subtropical oceans of both hemispheres. 
Adult male.—General color black, becoming sooty below; feathers of 
head, upper back, and scapulars elongate and pointed; head with slight 
oil-green gloss; scapulars strongly glossed with bronze-green, this 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 below; webs bluish below; nails brown. 
Extent of wings, 1,830; length of bird, 914; wing, 600; tail, 410; depth 
of fork, 240; culmen from base, 105; tarsus, 20. Grant gives the follow- 
ing measurements: Length, about 1,016; culmen, from feathers on fore- 
head, 91 to 112; wing, 521 to 655; tail, 355 to 376; tarsus, 18.” 
