 | J. Macloc - 1820 - 348 pages
...forehead : its belly is whitish, and the legs and feet of a dusky black. It is near six inches in length, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail; the former being about half an inch, and the latter two inches and a half. This bird, in our climate,... | |
 | James Edward Smith - 1821 - 656 pages
...this charming bird, which would make so glorious a figure. The size of the Chinese Argus or Luen is, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail in a straight line, seven feet and a half ; from the top of the back to the legs, one foot three inches... | |
 | Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh - 1823 - 420 pages
...of the celebrated navigator of the Icy Seas. DESCRIPTION. Its extreme length (Plate XV.1. fig. 1.), from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, 19 inches ; its breadth could not he well ascertained in the state in which it came into my hands ;... | |
 | 1824 - 458 pages
...Gazette. A PELICAN was lately wounded and taken in the Alleghany river. This immense bird measures, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, five feet one inch and a half; from tip to tip of the wings eight feet, in height of body one foot... | |
 | Mary Trimmer - 1825 - 278 pages
...forehead : its belly is whitish, and the legs and feet of a dusky black. It is near six inches in length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, the former being about half an inch, and the latter two inches and a half. This bird, in our climate,... | |
 | 1829 - 494 pages
...single Heron is able to destroy nine thousand score carp in half a year. This bird is about four feet long from the tip of the bill to the end of the -claws ; to the end of the tail about thirty-eight inches ; the breadth, when the wings are extended,... | |
 | 1830 - 430 pages
...flies rapidly in flocks nfter bees, and no doubt locusts, &c. — It is about six inches in length, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, and makes a loud and harsh kind of cry as it flies. It is very common in this country, and is good eating."... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 828 pages
...weighing «bout eighty pounds, and often measuring upwards of eight feet in height, and as many in length, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail ; but, from the ground to the top of the back, it seldom exceeds four feet, the rest of its height... | |
 | James Bolton - 1830 - 382 pages
...Then let me sit and listen to thy strains." 21 In length the nightingale is from six to seven inches, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail; about equal to the skylark in size, but longer bodied and more elegantly formed. The colours are very... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 1831 - 522 pages
...sparrow, is the most familiar with man. It weighs about six drachms, and is about seven inches and a half from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, and about eleven between the point of each wing, when xterided. It has a slender, straight, sharp bill,... | |
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It is near six inches in length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, the former being about half an inch, and the latter two inches and a half. 
