THE MAX OMYAR BIRD FAMILY 



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which as yet we know nothing about, and which remains to 

 be discovered and described. 



Besides the species described above, there arc five other 

 species of gannets, called Boobys, with various prefixes, which 

 touch I lie coasts of the continenl of North America. 



Photograph bj It. J. Beck. Galapagos Islands. 



MAX O'-WAR BIRDS. 



THE MAN-O'-WAR BIRD FAMILY 



Fregaiidae 



Whenever al sea in the tropics your attention is arrested 

 by the flight far aloft of a big, dark-colored bird with long, 

 sharp-pointed wings, and a long tail that is deeply forked, know 

 that it is a Frigate Bird, 1 or, as the sailors call it, M \\-o'- 

 War "Hawk." It is a long-distance flier, and goes out far 



1 Fre-ga'ta a'quil-a. Length, about M) inch 



