. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . TACHYPETES AQUILUS : FRIGATE. 341 Family TACHYPETID^: Frigates. FRIGATE, OR MAN-OF-WAR BIRD. TaCHYPETES AQUILUS (Z.) V. Chars. Bill longer than head, stout, straight, wider than highat the base, thence gradually compressed to the strongly hookedextremity. Nostrils very small, linear, almost entirely closed, ina long, narrow sac small, but ca-pable of considerabledistension. Wings ex-ceedingly long andpointed, of about thirty-four remiges, of whichthe ten primaries are j very powerful, with stout ,5^^ ^r. W J Fig
. New England bird life: being a manual of New England ornithology; . TACHYPETES AQUILUS : FRIGATE. 341 Family TACHYPETID^: Frigates. FRIGATE, OR MAN-OF-WAR BIRD. TaCHYPETES AQUILUS (Z.) V. Chars. Bill longer than head, stout, straight, wider than highat the base, thence gradually compressed to the strongly hookedextremity. Nostrils very small, linear, almost entirely closed, ina long, narrow sac small, but ca-pable of considerabledistension. Wings ex-ceedingly long andpointed, of about thirty-four remiges, of whichthe ten primaries are j very powerful, with stout ,5^^ ^r. W J Fig. 75. — Head of Frigate Bird. quadrangular shaftsupper and middle por-tion of the wings greatlylengthened. Tail verylong, deeply forked, oftwelve strong exceedingly small, the tarsus, in particular, extraordinarily short, feathered ;middle claw pectinate. Bulk of body slight compared with thegreat length of the wings and tail. Male brownish-black, glossedwith green or purplish, duller on the belly, wings showing brownand gray ; female with white on neck and breast. Length,about feet; extent, about ; wing, ; tail, ; bill, or inches ; tarsi, 1 inch or less. Accidental, in one known instance. Mr. George BirdGrinnell narrates that a female of this species was killed 342 ■ TACHYPETIDiE : FRIGATE BIRDS. on Faulkner§ Island, Conn., in the autumn of 1859, andpreserved in the collection of Captain Brooks (Am. Nat.,ix, 1865, p. 470. See also Merriam, Rev. B. Conn.,1877, p. 131 ; Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc, xix, 1878, p. 308).Mr. Purdies manuscript
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