 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.  Zoological Recreations - Стр. 143авторы: William John Broderip - 1847 - Страниц: 380Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Scottish school-book assoc - 1847 - Страниц: 152
...Europe. He is a bird of great strength, and very bold and fierce. The female is nearly four feet long from the point of the bill to the end of the tail ; the extent of the wings, when expanded, is about six feet. The male is somewhat smaller, for among... | |
 | Wonders - 1848 - Страниц: 496
...the air. The White Pelican (P. onocrotalus) is much larger than a swan, measuring five or six feet from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, and ten to twelve feet from tip to tip of the wings. The feet are large and completely webbed. Persons... | |
 | Mrs. Loudon (Jane) - 1850 - Страниц: 630
...water. -3*N»~-^ CT^-^~ THE HOOPOE. (Upupa epops.) THIS is a small bird, measuring no more than twelve inches from the point of the bill to the end of the tail. The bill is sharp, black, and somewhat bending. The head is adorned with a very beautiful, large, moveable... | |
 | A. E. Belknap - 1850 - Страниц: 70
...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... | |
 | William Thompson - 1851 - Страниц: 528
...the bill to the end of the tail. The bird being laid on a flat surface, the space which it occupied from the point of the bill to the end of the tail was 12 inches 6 lines. The length of three specimens given in the ' Faun. Bor.-Amer.' was from 15 in.... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - Страниц: 880
...ornithology, the red and blue macaw. This bird is the finest of the parrot kind ; being a full yard long, from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, and its plumage adorned with the most beautiful variety of colours. :SC] Scientific antr HUtcraru tfoasurn... | |
 | Zadock Thompson - 1853 - Страниц: 736
...toothed; tarsus roundish, two thirds feathered; feet strong, toes rasp-like on the underside. Length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail 3 feel 7 inches, folded wing 26 inches; tail hevond the folded wirgs 6.5 inches; from the tip of the... | |
 | 1853 - Страниц: 428
...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... | |
 | Samuel Maunder - 1853 - Страниц: 872
...ornithology, the red and blue macaw. This bird is the finest of the parrot kind ; being a full yard long, from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, audits plumage adorned with the most beautiful variety of colours. NO CUILDRKtf. E SCALA'DE, in the... | |
 | Mayne Reid - 1854 - Страниц: 530
...making notes upon its size, colour, and other peculiarities. The owl measured exactly two feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail j and its " alar spread," as naturalists term it, was full five feet in extent. It was of a clove-brown... | |
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