 | Robert Sears - 1856 - Страниц: 566
...longer, and indeed there is no other bird in which they are *o disproportionately long. Its length, from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, is usually about four feet and two or three inches; but, to the end of the claws, it measures sometimes... | |
 | 1856 - Страниц: 540
...old cotton from the throat, mouth, and nostrils, and replace it by fresh. Then take the dimensions from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, from the tip of one wing to that of the other, when both are extended ; and from the tip of the wing... | |
 | John Cotton (F.Z.S.) - 1856 - Страниц: 246
...probable some of them may winter in that and other of the "West India islands. The length of this species, from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, is fourteen inches, to the tip of the wings, sixteen — extent, twenty-eight inches ; bill three inches... | |
 | Mayne Reid - 1857 - Страниц: 398
...making notes upon its size, color, and other peculiarities. The owl measured exactly two feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail ; and its " alar spread," as naturalists term it, was full five feet in extent. It •was of a clove-brown... | |
 | 1859 - Страниц: 532
...a brownish cast." He then goes on to say : " The Whooping Crane is four feet six inches in length, from the point of the bill to the end of the tail." My first reason for suspecting this idea to be incorrect, was, that during a visit I paid to the Prairies... | |
 | James Curtis Booth, Campbell Morfit - 1862 - Страниц: 740
...old cotton from the throat, month, and nostrils, and replace it by fresh. Then take the dimensions from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, from the tip of one wing to that of the other, when both are extended, and from the tip of the wing... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1862 - Страниц: 738
...old cotton from the throat, mouth, and nostrils, and replace it by fresh. Then take the dimensions from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, from the tip of one wing to that of the other, when both are extended, and from the tip of the wing... | |
 | John Shertzer Hittel - 1863 - Страниц: 490
...only on this coast. The trumpeter-swan (Cygnus buccinator) is a very large bird, measuring five feet from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, and six feet across from tip to tip of the outstretched wings. The plumage is snowy-white in color, its... | |
 | 1863 - Страниц: 852
...nidification. — The COMMON H. (A. cinérea) is about three feet in length Common Heron (Árdea cinérea). from the point of the bill to the end of the tail. It is of a delicate gray colour on the upper parts, except the quill-feathers, which are black, and... | |
 | William Jardine - 1866 - Страниц: 498
...and Audubon, the species of America closely resemble those of the Common Bittern. Length of the skin, from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, rather more than two feet ; bill to the rictus four inches, being longer proportionally, more slender... | |
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The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is about four feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, and nearly six feet across the wings. 
