Editing Frigatebird (section)

===Etymology===
The term ''Frigate Bird'' itself was used in 1738 by the English naturalist and illustrator [[Eleazar Albin]] in his ''A Natural History of the Birds''. The book included an illustration of the male bird showing the red [[gular pouch]].<ref>{{cite book | last=Albin | first=Eleazar | author-link=Eleazar Albin | year=1738 | title=A Natural History of the Birds | volume= 3 | page=75 and plate 80 on previous page | url=http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PPN=PPN469884460&DMDID=DMDLOG_0162&LOGID=LOG_0162&PHYSID=PHYS_0170 | place=London | publisher=Printed for the author and sold by William Innys }}</ref> Like the genus name, the English term is derived from the French mariners' name for the bird ''la frégate''—a [[frigate]] or fast warship.<ref>{{cite book | last= Jobling | first= James A. | year= 2010| title= The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names | url= https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling | publisher=Christopher Helm | location = London, United Kingdom | isbn = 978-1-4081-2501-4 | page=[https://archive.org/details/Helm_Dictionary_of_Scientific_Bird_Names_by_James_A._Jobling/page/n164 164]}}</ref> The etymology was mentioned by French naturalist [[Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre]] when describing the bird in 1667.<ref name=tertre>{{cite book | last=du Tertre | first=du Jean-Baptiste | author-link=Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre | year=1667 | title=Histoire générale des Antilles habitées par les François | volume=2 | publisher=Thomas Joly | place=Paris | language=fr | page=269, Plate p. 246 | url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k114021k/f297.image }}</ref>{{efn|Du Tertre wrote: "Loyseau que les habitans des Indes appellent ''Fregate'' (à cause de la vistesse de son vol) n'a pas le corp plus gros qu'une poule&nbsp;..." ("The bird that the inhabitants of the Indies call "frigate" (because of the speed of its flight) has a body no larger than a chicken's.")<ref name=tertre/>}}
Alternative names and spellings include "frigate bird", "frigate-bird", "frigate", "frigate-petrel".<ref name="SOED">{{cite book|title = Shorter Oxford English Dictionary|date =2007|location = Oxford, UK|isbn = 978-0-19-920687-2|publisher = Oxford University Press}}</ref>

[[Christopher Columbus]] encountered frigatebirds when passing the [[Cape Verde Islands]] on his first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492. In his journal entry for 29 September he used the word ''rabiforçado'', modern Spanish ''rabihorcado'' or forktail.<ref>{{cite journal | last=Hartog | first=J.C. den | year=1993 | title=An early note on the occurrence of the Magnificent Frigate Bird, ''Fregata magnificens'' Mathews, 1914, in the Cape Verde Islands: Columbus as an ornithologist | journal=Zoologische Mededelingen | volume=67 | pages=361–64 | url=http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/149308 }}</ref><ref name=dunn>{{ cite book | last1=Dunn | first1=Oliver | last2=Kelley | first2=James E. Jr | year=1989 | title=The Diario of Christopher Columbus's First Voyage to America, 1492–1493| publisher=University of Oklahoma Press | place=Norman, Oklahoma | isbn=0-8061-2384-2 | page=[https://archive.org/details/diarioofchristop00colu/page/45 45] | url=https://archive.org/details/diarioofchristop00colu | url-access=registration }}</ref>{{efn|Columbus's journal survives in a version recorded by Bartholomé de las Casas in the 1530s. In English the entry reads: "They saw a bird that is called a frigatebird, which makes the boobies throw up what they eat in order to eat it herself, and she does not sustain herself on anything else. It is a seabird, but does not alight on the sea nor depart from land 20 leagues. There are many of these on the islands of Cape Verde."<ref name=dunn/>}} In the Caribbean frigatebirds were called Man-of-War birds by English mariners. This name was used by the English explorer [[William Dampier]] in his book ''An Account of a New Voyage Around the World'' published in 1697:<ref name=dampier>{{cite book | last=Dampier | first=James | author-link=William Dampier | year=1699 | orig-year=1697 | title=An Account of a New Voyage Around the World | publisher=James Knapton | place=London, United Kingdom | page=[https://archive.org/details/anewvoyageround01knapgoog/page/n77 49] | url=https://archive.org/details/anewvoyageround01knapgoog }}</ref>
<blockquote>The Man-of-War (as it is called by the English) is about the bigness of a Kite, and in shape like it, but black; and the neck is red. It lives on Fish yet never lights on the water, but soars aloft like a Kite, and when it sees its prey, it flys down head foremost to the Waters edge, very swiftly takes its prey out of the Sea with his Bill, and immediately mounts again as swiftly; never touching the Water with his Bill. His Wings are very long; his feet are like other Land-fowl, and he builds on Trees, where he finds any; but where they are wanting on the ground.<ref name=dampier/></blockquote>