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The Florida cormorant is from 535 to 760 mm. long with the 

 wing about 305 mm. The adult is black with a greenish sheen 

 and has a tuft of white feathers on each side of the crown when in 

 breeding dress. The young are dull grayish brown. The bird has 

 a long body, long neck, webbed feet like those of a pelican, and a 

 hooked bill.] 



Suborder FREGATAE 



Family FREGATIDAE 



FREGATA MAGNIFICENS Mathews 



FRIGATE-BIRD, MAN-O'-WAR BIRD, RABIHORCADO, RABIJUNCO, 

 TIJERILLA, FREGATE 



Fregata minor magnificens Mathews, Austr. Av. Rec, vol. 2, December 19, 

 1914, p. 120 (Barrington Island, Galapagos Archipelago). 



Fregate, Oexmelin, Hist. Avent. Flibustiers, vol. 1, 1775, pp. 357-35S 

 (habits). — Saint-Mery, Descript! Part. Frang. lie Saint-Domingue, vol. 1, 1797, 

 p. 717 (near Port-de-Paix). 



Man of War Bird, $aint-Mery, Descript. Span. Part Saint-Domingo, vol. 1, 

 1798, pp. 192-193 (Samana Bay). 



Tachypetes aquilus, Bryant, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., vol. 11, May, 1867, 

 p. 98 (Haiti).— Cory, Bull. Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 155 (Haiti; seen) ; 

 Birds Haiti and San Domingo, March, 1885, pp. 173-174 (shot). — Christy, 

 Ibis, 1897, p. 342 (Samana Bay). 



Tachypetes aquilis, Tippenhatjee, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, p. 323 (listed). 



Fregata aquila, Cory, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 85 (Haiti, Dominican 

 Republic). — Verrill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1909, p. 355 (San 

 Lorenzo Bay). 



Fregata magnificens, Peters, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. vol. 61, 1917, p. 397 

 (North Coast, Dominican Republic). — Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. 80, 1928, p. 489 (Gonave channel, Port-de-Paix). — Danforth, Auk, 1929, 

 p. 360 (Saona Island, Santo Domingo City, San Pedro de Macoris, Boca Chica, 

 Gonave). — Lonnberg, Fauna och Flora, 1929, p. 99 (Navassa, specimen). — 

 Ekman, Ark. for Bot, vol. 22A, No. 16, p. 6 (Navassa). 



Fregata magnificens rothschildi, Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 30, 1927, p. 138 ; 

 Beneath Tropic Seas, 1928, p. 218 (Port-au-Prince; Fregate Island, breeding). 



Kesident ; seen in small numbers along the coasts, locally common. 



Moreau de Saint-Mery records the man-6-war bird among the 

 small islands of Samana Bay, and in his remarks concerning the 

 species says "the cooling oil of which is excellent for the gout 

 and the sciatica." His observations evidently refer to the colony 

 on the islands that comprise the Pelican Keys or Islas de los 

 Pajaros at the entrance of San Lorenzo Bay, where the birds still 

 nest today. (PL 13.) Doctor Abbott, on March 16, 1919, reported 

 about forty or fifty pairs in this colony, and collected two sets of 

 two eggs each, and a pair of adult birds. He notes one set of 

 eggs as fairly well incubated, and says that some of the nests con- 



