Fregata andrewsi CR

Ghiraldi, Luca & Aimassi, Giorgio, 2019, Extinct and endangered (‘ E & E’) birds in the ornithological collection of the Museum of Zoology of Torino University, Italy, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 139 (1), pp. 28-45 : 36

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.25226/bboc.v139i1.2019.a2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11558879
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/039387EB-FFC3-F802-FF10-FB56FCC0F989
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Fregata andrewsi CR
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CHRISTMAS FRIGATEBIRD Fregata andrewsi CR View in CoL

Fregata andrewsi Mathews, 1914 View in CoL

MZUT AV6097 View Materials ; mount; unsexed juvenile; Christmas Island, 24 April 1866; collected during the Magenta voyage .

Remarks.—On 24 April 1866, the Italian warship Magenta was at 10°44’S, 104°28’E, some c.35–40 nautical miles from Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean ( Giglioli 1870, 1876). Giglioli originally identified the specimen as a juvenile Ascension Frigatebird F. aquila (Linnaeus, 1758) but it was re-identified as F. andrewsi , probably by Salvadori, after the species was described by Mathews (1914). Photographs and measurements of the bill and wing confirm the re-identification (I. A. W. McAllan pers. comm.).