FREGATA. 83 
Dull black, the central lesser wing-coverts light grayish brown, the 
scapulars, etc., only slightly metallic, and not lanceolate; breast and 
sides whitish. Young: Head, neck, breast, and belly, white; otherwise, 
much as in the adult female. Downy young: Covered with very fluffy 
pure white down. Length 37.50-41.00, wing 22.00-27:10 (24.90), tail 
14.25-19.25 (17.73), forked for more than half its length; culmen 4.25- 
5.15 (4.62). West a rude structure of sticks on trees or bushes (usually 
mangroves) along sea-shore. Eggs (usually only 1), 2.70 x 1.83, pure 
white, oval, ovate, or elongate-ovate. Hab. Tropical and sabtrapical 
Seas, chiefly north of the equator; north regularly to Florida, Texas, 
and California, accidentally to Nova Scotia, Ohio, and Kansas. 
: 128. F. aquila (Linn.). Man-o’-War Bird. 
a, Culmen less than 4.15. 
In plumage not very obviously different from F. aquila. ‘Wing 20.50-25.25 
(21.53), tail 15.75-17.10 (16.27), culmen 3.65-4.10 (8.90). Hab. Tropical 
parts of the South Pacific. 
F. aquila minor (GMEL.). Lesser Man-o’-War Bird.) 
1 Pelecanus minor GMEL., S. N. i, 1788, 572. Fregata minor Rivew., in B. B. & R. Water B. N. Am. ii. 
1884, 128, 
