122 WHITE-HEADED FRIGATE-BIRD. 



colour, nearly resembling that of a hen, though some- 

 what larger; the male assists in incubation, while 

 the female is employed in procuring food. 



WHITE-HEADED FRIGATE-BIRD. 



(Fregata leucocephalus.) 



Fr. coY'pore fuscoj capite collo pectore abdomineque albis, rostro 

 obsciiro. 



Frigate-bird with the body brown, the head, neck, breast, and 



abdomen white, the beak obscure. 

 Pelecanus leucocephalus. Gmel. Si/st. Nat. I. 572. Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 886. 

 La Fregate. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. pL 30. 

 White-headed Frigate Pelican. Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 591. Lath, 



Gen. Hist. X. 413. 



Length about three feet : beak five inches long, 

 dusky, tip nearly white : sides of the head covered 

 with feathers : head and fore part of the neck white, 

 finishing in a point on the last : breast and belly 

 white : the rest of the plumage brown : tail forked : 

 legs pale reddish-brown. 



Latham describes a variety which had the head 

 and half the neck, all round, white, passing before 

 down the breast, and ending between the legs : sides 

 of the body, the vent, and rest of the plumage brown : 

 legs reddish-brown. In the Hunterian Museum: 

 whence unknown. 



