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of 1890. Mr. Robert Ridgway has also observed it in Knox and Gib- 

 son counties. Mr. C. A. Stockbridge, in Allen County; Mr. Charles 

 Dury, from "Swan Lake/' and Dr.- Vernon Gould, from Fulton 

 County. Prof. B. W. Evermann notes its occurrence in Montgomery 

 County, -and the capture of a specimen by Mr. W. W. Black, in Carroll 

 County, in the spring of 1881 (The Auk, October, 1888, p. 346). Mr. 

 F.' M. Noe gives an account of a specimen taken at New Castle May 

 20, 1892, in the Ornithologist and Oologist, 1892, Vol. XVII, p. 123. 

 A White Pelican was killed May 25, 1892, near Bloomfield, Greene 

 County. One was taken on the Wabash River, near Lafayette, Sept. 

 29, 1895 (L. A. and C. D. Test). Mr. W. B. Van Gorder reports a 

 specimen taken at Rome City in the spring of 1896. It is now in the 

 possession of Mr. William Williams. Mr. F. M. Woodruff informs me 

 that two of these birds were seen in the vicinity of Millers in the fall 

 of 1896, and that they remained there several days. Mr. F. M. ZToe 

 wrote me that he received a White Pelican which was killed near Con- 

 nersville, May 3, 1897. He says it was reported to have been seen in 

 that vicinity for several days. Mr. T. H. Ball says years ago they were 

 of regular occurrence at Cedar Lake, Lake County. They are usually 

 seen as they go northward in the spring, in May, and on their way 

 southward, in September or October. We are out of the line of their 

 migrations, hence see comparatively few of them, and those observed 

 are generally single birds. The direct line of movement to their breed- 

 ing grounds is to the west of the Mississippi River. There they mi- 

 grate in flocks, and are much more often seen. Their breeding ground 

 is chiefly north of the United States, where about many of the lakes 

 of British America they breed, as they also do on the islands of Great 

 Salt Lake, Utah. Ordinarily to the westward of the Mississippi River 

 the greater number pass north in April. It would therefore seem that 

 those which come to us are among the later migrants. 



IX. FAMILY FREGATID^. MAN o' WAR BIRDS 



Characters same as family. FREGATA. 12 



12. GKNUS FREGATA BRISSO*. 

 a 1 . Black; shoulders of male lustrous. F. aquila Linn. 24 



24. (128.) Fregata aquila LINN. 



Man-o'-War Bird. 



Adult Male. Tail deeply forked, entirely black, more or less glossy 

 above. Adult Female. Similar, but duller and browner; breast and 

 sides whitish. Immature. Head, neck, breast and belly, white; rest 

 of plumage like that of female. 



