MAN OF WAR BIRD, 
Bird; for, since I drew it, I have been told, 
by a gentleman who has made several voyages 
to the East Indies, that the feathers of the 
Males of this species are wholly black." 
Such is the description published by'Ed- | 
wards ; who calls it, after Brown, Dampier, ! 
and Sir Hans Sloane, the Man of War Bird. 
It is the Pelecanus Aquilus, of Linnaeus; the 
Fregata Avis, or Frigate Bird, of Ray, WiU 
lughby, Albin, and Pennant; the Fregata, of. | 
Brisson ; the Fregate of BufFon ; and the 
Frigate Pelican, of Latham. The Portuguese 
are said to call it the Rabo Forcado, on ac- 
count of it^s very forked tail : but, in Brasil, 
it is named Caripira. . 
BufFon has collected, on the whole, a very . ! 
respectable history of our Man of V/ar Bird; | 
but he certainly under-rates it's corporeal mag- 
nitude. He calls Edwards's bird, the Little 
Frigate, which measured thirty-six inches in 
length : yet gives, most inconsistently, as the 
general size of the body, only that of our 
Domestic Hen ; while he absurdly states the * 
expansion of it's wings lo be eight, ten, and 
even 
