Bird Notes from Long Island, 
william Dutoher. 
N.T. 
6. Fregata aquila. Man-o’-War Bird. — The claim of this bird to be 
included in the fauna of Long Island has heretofore rested on the speci- 
men captured by Capt. Brooks, in 1859, 011 Faulkner’s Island, Long 
Island Sound. f After an interval of twenty-seven years another straggler 
from the tropics furnishes an additional record of extra-limital occurrence. 
In August, 1886, Messrs. Lucas and Buck wrote to me that they had just 
mounted a specimen of the Frigate Pelican for Mrs. John Lyon Gardiner, 
which had been shot on Gardiner’s Island. Subsequently I ascertained, 
on inquiry, that the bird was shot August 4, 1886, by Mr. JosiahP. Miller, 
the keeper of the lighthouse. His account of the capture of the specimen 
is as follows : “The Man-o’-War Bird which I shot a while ago, was, when 
I first discovered it, sitting on a piece of old wreck, about fifty rods dis- 
tant from the lighthouse. I tried to get a shot at it, but it saw me before 
I was near enough, and flew off up the beach out of sight. It came back 
in about an hour and settled in the same place as before. This time I 
went on the opposite side of the beach and concealed myself in the grass. 
My daughter went toward the bird, when it flew directly overme, giving a 
splendid shot. It was alone, and is the only one of the kind that I ever 
saw in this part of the world. I have kept this light for twenty years.” 
Auk, V, April, 1888. p.173 
'(•American Naturalist, Vol. IX, p.470. 
