Note 103-1 — JOURNAL OF THE FIRST VOYAGE OF COLUMBUS

Rabiforcado, Portuguese. The Spanish form is rabihorcado. It means “forked tail.” The modern English equivalent is “frigate bird.” It is “the Fregata aquila of most ornithologists, the Frégate of French and the Rabihorcado of Spanish mariners.” Newton, Dictionary of Birds, art. “Frigate-Bird.” Newton says that the name “man-of-war bird” has generally passed out of use in books.