 | Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh - 1814 - 398 pàgines
...stuffed, to the Society, and the following is a description of the bird : It measured two feet seven inches and a half from the point of the bill to the extremity of the tail ; and four feet five inches between the tips of the wings. Its weight was seven... | |
 | 1816 - 386 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | 1822 - 290 pàgines
...of the Society, weighed 5 pounds; its breadth, between the wings, was 5 feet 2 inches; the length, from the point of the bill to the tip of the tail, 2 feet 5 inches. The back and upper part pf the wings pale-blue, head and neck streaked with grey.... | |
 | Mary Trimmer - 1825 - 278 pàgines
...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 colour,... | |
 | 1826 - 540 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 586 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Edward Turner Bennett - 1831 - 346 pàgines
...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. Of these measurements the neck and legs form a a very considerable proportion.... | |
 | Alexander Wilson - 1832 - 472 pàgines
...gunners, whom the novelty of their appearance had drawn to the place. Several flocks of the Yellow-shanks Snipe, and a few Purres, appeared also in the meadows...covers the crown, auriculars, spot before the eye and hind head; the forehead, eyelids, sides of the neck, passing quite round below the hind head, and whole... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - 640 pàgines
...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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... length from the point of the bill to the tip of the tail, is about three feet. 
