SIDNEY 
DRAFT 
Great Frigatehird ( Pregats. minor ) 
Current Status s Hypothetical, no positive records. 
Prior Records: Great Frigatebirds and Lesser Frigatebirds were rj/6t distinquished byj 
any -©#~*4h.e prior visitors to Sydney island so all prior recorc^fe are open to 
frigitebirds 
cuesuion. CcL^sm (185o) staces that Dr, rickering round present in great 
nuuoeiOil oyaney Island in August 1839 and Lister (1890.) 
n a great column 51 of frigates over one end of the is lam in the summer of 1889, 
Correia (3-934 MS 1924) states that they were presen/but gives no indication of 
their abundance 
