 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - 628 pages
...no moisture. The Greenlanders also make the same use of them. The loon measures two feet ten inches from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, and four feet six inches in breadth : the bill is strong, of a glossy black, 'and four inches and three... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - 1831 - 344 pages
...known in Hudson's Bay by the name of loons."* The great northern diver measures two feet ten inches from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, and four feet six inches in breadth ; the bill is strong, of a glossy black, and four inches and three... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 610 pages
...no moisture. The Greenlanders also make the same use of them. The loon measures two feet ten inches from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, and four feet six inches in breadth : the bill is strong, of a glossy black, and four inches and three... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 586 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,... | |
 | George Montagu - 1831 - 670 pages
...distance. This bird measures four feet from the extremities of the wings, and three feet six inches from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail ; the train extending seven or eight inches further ; this train is composed of a great number of long... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...that a latly had one of Jiess birds -which talked very finely. The length of a full-grown goldfinch, E is rive inches and a half; of which the latter is two, and the former a little more than half an inch... | |
 | Prideaux John Selby - 1833 - 596 pages
...female, it appears to be a young bird. Its dimensions, when recently killed, were as follows. Length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail two feet one inch. Breadth with extended wings five feet. The male is of inferior size, and is much... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - 640 pages
...Redshank. (Scolopax Totanus, LINN. ; Le Chevalier Яоиде^Витт.) — The length of this bird, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail is twelve inches, and to the end of the toes, fourteen inches and a half; its breadth, twenty-one inches... | |
 | 1833 - 754 pages
...but a distinct species. The following is a description of it : (SYLVIA KUFICAPILLA ? Mihi.) Length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, 5} inches in one specimen, and four inches in the other ; the tail of one is two inches in length,... | |
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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. 
