MAN OF WAR BIRD» 
that they may breed undisturbed^ Dampier 
remarks, that they biiild their nests on trees, in 
jequestered spots near the sea. They lay one 
or .two eggs ; which are white, with a carna- 
ion tinge, and having small dots of crimson^ 
The young ones are at first covered with a 
ight grey down ; their feet are of the same 
colour, and their bill is almost white. But 
his colour afterwards changes ; and the bill 
[rows red, or black, atidblueish in the middle!, 
he same alteration takes place in the toes, 
kmong the number of Frigates seen by the 
/iscount De Querhoent, at the Island of 
Vscension,'* adds BufFon, *' and which were all 
f the same size, some appeared entirely black ; 
thers of a deep black on the upper surface of 
le body, with the head and belly white. The 
jathers on the neck are so long, that the in- 
abitants of the South-Sea Islands work them 
ito bonnets. They set great value on the 
it, or rather oil, extracted from these birds, 
Q account of it's supposed virtue in curing 
teumatisms and torpors." 
M. De la Borde says—** The Buccaneers 
':tract, this oil, which they call the Oil of 
ij Frigates J 
