 | David Jay Browne - 1867 - 112 σελίδες
...want of a due balance of parts. The pouter is of large size, often measuring eighteen inches in length from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail. The chest is not really voluminous, though it appears enormous when the crop is distended with air;... | |
 | Daniel Jay Browne - 1850 - 118 σελίδες
...want of a due balance of parts. The pouter is of large size, often measuring eighteen inches in length from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail. Tiie chest is not really voluminous, though it appears enormous when the crop is distended with air;... | |
 | William Bernhard Tegetmeier - 1868 - 234 σελίδες
...only seven ounces each. The length of a very good specimen may be stated at eleven inches, measured from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail, when the neck is extended ; and the length of the beak, measured in the usual manner from the front... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1869 - 402 σελίδες
...English Pouter or Pouting Horseman is said to be derived from a cross between the Horseman and Cropper. From the tip of the beak to the end of the tail it should measure eighteen inches. The crop should be large and circular. Birds pied with black, blue,... | |
 | 1899 - 792 σελίδες
...from Mecca. The English Pouter is said to be derived from a cross between the Horseman and Cropper. From the tip of the beak to the end of the tail it should measure at least eighteen inches. The crop should be large and circular. Birds pied with... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1870 - 564 σελίδες
...half their length ; the toes rather long and well adapted for perching; the nails dark horncoloured ; from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail they measure about seventeen inches, and from tip to tip of the expanded wings twenty-nine inches.... | |
 | New Zealand Institute - 1872 - 510 σελίδες
...size of the Jay, has a strong black beak, with a slightly curved upper maxilla, and measures 16 inches from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail. Its feet are black like those of the former. Its plumage is soft silk-like and glossy black. It has... | |
 | Charles Colcock Jones - 1873 - 660 σελίδες
...regarded as interesting specimens. The first (Fig. 1) made of serpentine, is seven inches and a half from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail, three inches in height to the top of the bowl, and two inches and two-teuths in width just in rear... | |
 | Alfred Edmund Brehm - 1874 - 970 σελίδες
...and sex. A very old male, of the species we are now describing, will measure three feet six inches from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail, and from wing to wing eight feet; while its weight may reach as high as thirtytwo, and on some occasions... | |
 | Alfred Edmund Brehm - 1874 - 970 σελίδες
...and sex. A very old male, of the species we are now describing, will measure three feet six inches from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail, and from wing to wing eight feet ; while its weight may reach as high as thirtytwo, and on some occasions... | |
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... inches from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail when spread as far as possible flat. 
