 | Thomas Dick - 1840 - 454 pages
...the feathers drop from their bodies, and are again renewed every spring. The length of the peacock, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, is about three feet eight inches. Some of its longest feathers are four feet long. This bird appears... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders - 1840 - 196 pages
...it is now found in most countries. It lives to the age of twenty years. The length of the peacock, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, is about seven feet; and some of its longest feathers are four feet long. It is one of the most beautiful... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1841 - 522 pages
...the water. This bird, as nearly as we" could judge, weighed about twelve pounds ; he was three feet from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, and nearly five feet between the extremities of the wings, when spread. The head, and half the length of... | |
 | 1846 - 872 pages
...susceptible of fear at his approach and presence. The Wagtail is about seven inches and a half in length, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, and eleven inches in breadth, between the point of each extended wing : it has a sharp bill of an inch... | |
 | John Hall - 1844 - 152 pages
...the feathers drop from their bodies', and are again renewed every spring. The length of the peacock, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail', is about three feet eight inches. Some of its longest feathers are four feet long. This bird appears... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1848 - 924 pages
...GIAST KJVOFISIIEH. (L>acdo gigantea.) This is the largest species known, measuring eighteen inches from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail : the colour of the plumage chiefly composed of olive- brown and a pale bluegreen. Native of Auntralio... | |
 | Wonders - 1848 - 496 pages
...four feet, the rest of its height being made up by its extremely long neck. In length the Ostrich is, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, from six to eight feet. Occasionally the bird has been found to exceed these dimensions. In the " Gentleman's... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1849 - 462 pages
...Cygnus musicus, or whistling swan, is the largest migratory bird of Europe or America. It is 5 feet long from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, and 8 feet from tip to tip of the wings : its plumage is pure white, tinged orange or yellow on the head.... | |
 | William Jardine, P. J. Selby - 1850 - 370 pages
...base, with a broad black fascia near their tips, which are gray. Bill and feet yellow. Extreme length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail nearly ten inches. The colours of the female are more sordid, and the forehead and chin, instead of... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1850 - 520 pages
...the leathers drop from their bodies, and ore again renewed every spring. The length of the peacock, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, is about three feet eight inches. Some of its longest feathers are four feet long. This bird appears... | |
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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. 
