 ... when the feathers begin to cover the skin, and soon become long and of a soft texture, forming a ruff or tippet, in which the bird by contracting his neck can hide that as well as his head; the bare skin on the neck appears loose and wrinkled...  reports of explorations and surveys - Pàgina 61858Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia - 1856 - 542 pàgines
...Bartram's Travels, p. 150. The head and neck are bare of feathers nearly down to the stomach, where the feathers begin to cover the skin, and soon become...which the bird, by contracting his neck, can hide that ы well as the head ; the bare skin on the neck appears loose and wrinkled, which is of a very deep... | |
 | Seba Smith, Elizabeth Oakes Prince Smith - 1856 - 592 pàgines
...down to the stomach, wheu the feathers begin to cover the (-kin, and soon become long and of а fof. texture— forming a ruff or tippet, in which the...bare skin on the neck appears loose and wrinkled, and is of a bright yellow color, intermixed with coral red ; the hinder part of 'he neck is nearly... | |
 | 1860 - 536 pàgines
...vultures just described, is found about Lake Okechobee, in Southern Florida, where it is called the king buzzard. The verification of this statement by...can hide that as well as his head ; the bare skin of the neck appears loose and wrinkled, and is of a bright yellow colour intermixed with coral-red... | |
 | Elliott Coues, Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) - 1874 - 818 pàgines
...bent suddenly down, and sharp ; the head and neck bare of feathers nearly down to the stomach, where the feathers begin to cover the skin, and soon become...the neck appears loose and wrinkled, which is of a bright-yellow color, intermixed with coral red ; the hinder part ot the neck is nearly covered with... | |
 | Elliott Coues - 1874 - 816 pàgines
...bent suddenly down, and sharp ; the head and neck bare of feathers nearly down to the stomach, where the feathers begin to cover the skin, and soon become...the neck appears loose and wrinkled, which is of a bright-yellow color, intermixed with coral red ; the hinder part of the neck is nearly covered with... | |
 | Elliott Coues - 1874 - 816 pàgines
...bent suddenly down, and sharp ; the head and neck bare of feathers nearly down to the stomach, where the feathers begin to cover the skin, and soon become...his head ; the bare skin on the neck appears loose aud wrinkled, which is of a bright-yellow color, intermixed with coral red ; the hinder part of the... | |
 | Barnard Shipp - 1881 - 720 pàgines
...thelly bluff npon the little lake" of St. John's River, was then so named by him. 653 APPENDIX. come long and of a soft texture, forming a ruff or tippet,...bare skin on the neck appears loose and wrinkled, and is of a deep, bright yellow color, intermixed with coral-red; the hinder part of the neck is nearly... | |
 | William Bartram - 1928 - 424 pàgines
...feathers nearly down to -the stomach, when the feathers begin to cover the * Vultur sacra. t Vultur aurea. skin, and soon become long and of a soft texture,...bare skin on the neck appears loose and wrinkled, and is of a deep bright yellow colour, intermixed with coral red; the hinder part of the neck is nearly... | |
 | William Bartram - 1998 - 826 pàgines
...saii. I shall call this bird the painted vulture. The bill is long and strait almost to the point, when it is hooked or bent suddenly down and sharp; the...the bird by contracting his neck can hide that as [151] well as his head; the bare skin on the neck appears loose and wrinkled, which is of a deep bright... | |
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