 | 1816 - 386 σελίδες
...the year, as well as from age and sex. The specimen from which the above drawing was taken, measured from the point of the bill to the tip of the tail, eight inches and a half, the extended wings about fifteen, and it weighed two ounces eight drachms... | |
 | 1859 - 1200 σελίδες
...with rosy flower-tufts, out in the sunlight. We procured one of the seventeen, and found that, though from the point of the bill to the tip of the tail it was fully six inches long, it weighed only a dram and a half. They may abound ; for, like the wren,... | |
 | Mary Trimmer - 1825 - 278 σελίδες
...vol.. II. G it does not usually weigh more than twelve ounces ; and it measures about sixteen inches from the point of the bill to the tip of the tail , and from the extremity of each wing, when extended, nearly two feet. The bill is of a dark brown... | |
 | 1826 - 540 σελίδες
...Cheshire, ou Tuesday, October 25, which measured between the two extremities of the wings, five feet, and from the point of the bill to the tip of the tail three feet one inch. It weighed Clb. 9oz. On Tuesday, November 1, a cormorant, weighing seven pounds,... | |
 | Edward Turner Bennett - 1831 - 346 σελίδες
...type, and to render it still more necessary to isolate the Crowned Crane under a new generic name. The elegant species to which the French .Academicians...feet. Of these measurements the neck and legs form a a very considerable proportion. A patch of light gray occupies the whole of the upper surface of the... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - 1831 - 344 σελίδες
...its appearance after the others have gone off. The short-tailed tern measures eight inches and a half from the point of the bill to the tip of the tail, and twenty-three inches in extent ; the bill is an inch and a quarter in length, sharp pointed, and... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 586 σελίδες
...in France. It does not usually weigh more than twelve ounces ; and it measures about sixteen inches from the point of the bill to the tip of the tail, and from the extremity of each wing, when extended, nearly two feet. The bill is of a dark brown colour,... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - 1832 - 472 σελίδες
...its appearance after the others have gone off. The Short-tailed Tern measures eight inches and a half from the point of the bill to the tip of the tail, and twentythree inches in extent ; the bill is an inch and a quarter in length, sharp pointed, and... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - 640 σελίδες
...the year, as well as from age and sex. The specimen from which the above drawing was taken measured from the point of the bill to the tip of the tail eight inches and a half; the extended 308 THE FIELD BOOK. 309 grey ; the chin white, and a stroke of... | |
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In an upright position, it measures, when fully grown, about three feet six inches to the top of the head ; and its length, from the point of the bill to the tip of the tail, is about three feet. 
