...wonders enough to excite our admiration and astonishment. Looking at its vast dimensions, six feet from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, we should suppose that there would be a corresponding weight to be borne upwards by its vast spreading...

...Hesperornis. The skeleton of this animal if extended to its full length would meagare about six feet from the point of the bill to the end of the tail It must have been a typical aquatic bird, without any power of flight, but with strongly developed...

...to the end, two inches and three-sixteenths ; length of tarsi, two inches and seveneighths ; length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, about forty inches; wing, eighteen ; the head and greater portion of the neck black ; cheeks and throat...

...Linn.—Cigognc blanckc, Temm.; THE Stork is smaller than the Crane, but much larger than the Heron: the length, from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, is three feet six inches; and its breadth, from tip to tip, above six feet. The bill is of a fine red...

...californianus, which Clark H 150 carefully describes. It measured 9^ feet from tip to tip, 3 feet 1o*4 inches from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, the tail 14 ^ inches, the head and beak 6^ inches. This is one of the earliest measurements ever made...

...perfectly fair no bird should be subject to this operation. The usual method is to take the length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, and to ensure exactness a padded frame should be used, with an upright piece of wood at one end and a sliding...

...four young birds. The cock, which is the largest figure of an emu which I have yet seen, is 10 feet 6 inches from the point of the bill to the end of the tail and 11 feet 3 inches from the bill to the end of the foot. What I have supposed to be the hen, or mother...

...nidification. — The COMMON H. Common Heron (Arrlea cinerea). (A. einerea) is about three ft. in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail. It is of delicate gray color on the upper parts, except the quill feathers, which are black, and the...

...lalericorn : tail short, rounded (p. 753). REMARKS. — In this Edition, the length of a bird is measured from the point of the bill to the end of the tail ; and in all cases average measurements are to be understood. The upper mandible is often called the maxilla,...

...and composed of ten or twelve feathers. The common heron { A rdla cinerXa ) is about 3 feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, builds its nest in high trees, many being sometimes on one tree. Its food consists of fish, frogs,...