MAN OF WAR BIRD. 
I $een in seas at a distance from land. It ap- 
I pears to me, to he the same with the Rahi- 
horcado, or Raboforcado, of Willughby. 
Petiver has the same figure in his Gazophyla- 
cium. He calls it, the Indian Forked-TaiL 
The figures given by these authors — who, by 
the way, borrowed them from Nieremberg — • 
are very imperfect, and can give no idea of the 
bird: and what they say of it, amounts to no 
more, than that it has a forked tail. Du 
Tertre has given a description of this bird, by 
the name of La Fregate ; with an account of 
it's long flight over the sea from land, and it's 
combats with other sea-fowls for prey, &:c. 
Ray, in his Synopsis Avium, has given Du 
Tertre's description, Sec. part of which is 
translated into Albin's History of Birds. I 
imagine, Albin has formed his figure of the 
Frigate Bird from Du Tertre's description 
only: for it is very erroneous; especially in 
the gills, as he calls them, and in the feet, which 
in my figure are rectified. Du Tertre says, 
the Males are wholly black as Ravens. I be- 
lieve, what is here given to be by far the 
truest figure, and the exactest description, yet 
extant, I suppose, this may be the Female 
Bird; 
