FREGATID,€. — -PHAETH ONTI D.^ . 
F regata ariel (G. R. Gray}. Lesser Frigate Bird. 
Fregita arid ariel (G. R. Gray).* 
Atagen Ariel G. R. Gray, List. Gen. Birds, iii, 1845, p. 669, pi. 
183 : Rahie Island, North Queensland. 
Distr. — Malay Peninsula (both coasts); Tioman Archipelago; 
Anamba Islands. 
Sumatra (Straits of Malacca near the Aroa Islands). 
Coast of Sarawak; Labuan; Balambangan Island, North 
Borneo; Maratua Islands; Karim ata Islands. 
Java; Kangean Islands. 
Cocos-Keeling Islands. 
Freg&ta minor (Gmel.) . Frigate Bird. 
Fregata minor minor (Gmel.). 
Pelecanus minor Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i, pt. 2, 1789, p. 572 : Christmas 
Island, Indian Gcean. 
Fregata minor listeri Mathews, Austr. Av. Ret. ii, 1914, P- 119: Christ- 
mas Island, Indian Ocean. 
Distr . — Coast of Sarawak 1 ; Snlu Sea. 
Java; Bawean Island. 
Christmas Island. 
Family FHAETHONTID M. 
Genus PHAETHON Linn. 
Phaethon rubricauda Bodd. Red-tailed Tropic Bird. 
f Phaethon rubricauda rubricauda Bodd. 
Phaeton rubricauda Boddaert, Tabl. PL Hnl. 1783, p. 57 : Mauritius. 
Distr. — Extra-limi tal. ] 
Phaethon rubricauda westralii Math. 
Pkmthon rubricauda wes traits Mathews, Austr. Av. Rec, i, 1912, 
p. 88 : West Australia. 
Distr. — Christmas Island; ? Cocos-Keeling Islands. 3 
' A frigate bird is also found far inland on Korinchi Lake, West Sumatra. 
Dr. P. R. Lowe lists birds from the Cocos-Keeling Islands as F. oriel sub- 
sp. We have never seen specimens from that locality. Has also been recorded 
from Christmas Island but we doubt if the bird occurs there and suspect a 
mistake in labelling. 
* Formerly, but I think wrongly, identified by Mr. C. Boden KIoss and 
myself as F. m. aldabrensis Maths. 
3 P. rubricauda is included in Vordermaii’s Sumatran list without 
sufficient authority. 
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