| William Charles L. Martin - 1799 - 200 páginas
...but it seems to us to be a stiff unnatural strut. The pouter often measures eighteen inches in length from the point of the beak to the end of the tail; the legs, or tarsi, are long and covered with fine white down; the back is concave, and the tail large.... | |
| 1816 - 386 páginas
...resembleS the last two kinds. It weighs twelve pennyweights troy, and measures in length, extended, from the point of the beak to the end of the tail, nearly six inches ; from tip to tip of its wings, about eleven inches and a half; and the bill, to... | |
| Thomas Boreman - 1818 - 420 páginas
...the most sublime of the scriptural writers, St. John the Evangelist. The Golden Eagle is, in length, from the point of the beak to the end of the tail, about three feet nine inches ; the breadth, when his wings are extended, is eight spans. The beak is... | |
| Charles Waterton - 1825 - 350 páginas
...fine plumage for the cabinet of . the naturalist. The largest species measures ten inches and a half from the point of the beak to the end of the tail ; its name amongst the Indians is Una-wayaadoucati, that is, grandfather of the Jacamar. It is FOURTH... | |
| Georges baron Cuvier - 1829 - 626 páginas
...the more have their enormous dimensions been found to diminish. The average length of the condors, from the point of the beak to the end of the tail, is but three feet three inches. Their usual envergure eight or nine feet. Some individuals, from a... | |
| 1829 - 494 páginas
...; And hoary peaks, that proudly prop The skies, thy dwellings are. The Golden Eagle is, in length, from the point of the beak to the end of the tail, about three feet nine inches ; the breadth, when his wings are extended, is eight spans. The beak is... | |
| William Bingley - 1829 - 392 páginas
...rivers, lakes, and the seashores both of Europe and America. In the latter • DESCRIPTION. The length, from the point of the beak to the end of the tail, is about two feet, and the expanded wings measure somewhat more than five feet. The wing-. when closed,... | |
| John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1834 - 698 páginas
...a technical description of it, which the ornithologist first alluded to above has supplied. Length, from the point of the beak to the end of the tail, 8j in.; from the point of the beak to the gape (rictus), seven eighths of an inch ; width of mouth... | |
| William Yate - 1835 - 366 páginas
...acquainted with. It feeds upon the sea-shore, and in sandy grounds. It is about sixteen inches long, from the point of the beak to the end of the tail. Its plumage is much variegated, striped with black, and edged with a primrose colour. Its legs are... | |
| John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1836 - 680 páginas
...full beauty of plumage. It measures 5 ft. S in. from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other; and from the point of the beak to the end of the tail, 23 in." (Oxford University, City, and County Herald, Sept. 24. 1836.) Feathers in the Gizzard of the... | |
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