 | Robert Dodsley - 1758 - 586 σελίδες
...Strength, exceeding bold, and very voracious and fierce in devouring his Prey. He is of a large Size, near four Feet long from the Point of the Bill to the End of the Tail ; and betwixt the Points of each Wing, when extended, near fix Feet ; his Beak is very ftrong, crooked and... | |
 | Preceptor - 1758 - 590 σελίδες
...Strength, exceeding bold, jtnd very voracious and fierce in devouring his Prey. He It of a large Size, near four Feet long from the Point of the Bill to the End of the Tail ; and betwixt the Points of each Wing, when extended, near fix Feet ; his Beak is very ftrong, crooked and... | |
 | George Edwards - 1760 - 290 σελίδες
...from its natural fize : its wings, when extended, meafured three feet and an half from tip to tip ; from the point of the bill to the end of the tail it meafured two feet. The Hawk's bill is of a blueiih colour: the edges of the upper mandible are waved... | |
 | Eleazar Albin - 1759 - 160 σελίδες
...this, but in Weight, one three Ounces, the other three and an Half. The Length of a full-grown Bird, from the Point of the Bill, to the End of the Tail, is nine Inches ; of which the Bill is one, and the Tail three and a Half; therefore, allowing for Tail,... | |
 | Thomas Boreman - 1769 - 110 σελίδες
...been done by Nature's Inftinft, had he not with his own Eyes feen it. 19. THE HORN OWL is in Length, from the Point of the Bill to the End of the Tail, about fourteen Inches ; its Breadth, meafuring from Tip to Tipof the Wings extended, three Feet and... | |
 | George Low - 1813 - 272 σελίδες
...contentedly to a piece of dead horse if it can get it. In bulk it almost equals a goose ; the length, from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, two feet three inches, but if measured to the claws it is two feet five ; when the wings are extended... | |
 | 1816 - 386 σελίδες
...Cigogne, Buff.) THE "White Stork is smaller than the Crane, but much larger than the Heron : its length, from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, is three feet six inches ; and its breadth, from tip to tip, above six feet. The bill is of a fine... | |
 | Thomas Boreman - 1818 - 420 σελίδες
...time sufficient to build another. THE HOOPOE Is a small bird, measuring no more than twelve inches from the point of the bill to the end of the tail. The bill is sharp, black, and somewhat bending. The head is adorned with a very beautiful, large, moveable... | |
 | J. Macloc - 1820 - 348 σελίδες
...redish brown. THE WREN. THIS bird, which weighs only three drachms, and is but four inches in length, from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, is admired for the loudness of its note, compared with the little body whence it issues ; and even... | |
 | 1843 - 588 σελίδες
...membranes, slate-gray. The same zoologist states the measurement of the Polish swan to be fifty-seven inches from the point of the bill to the end of the tail ; and says, that the food and habits closely resemble those of the mute swan, Cygnus olor, whose organ of... | |
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The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is about four feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, and nearly six feet across the wings. 
