 | 1881 - Страниц: 898
...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... | |
 | Robert Barnwell Roosevelt - 1884 - Страниц: 462
...the mouth 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... | |
 | Thomas Bewick - 1885 - Страниц: 462
...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... | |
 | Thomas Bewick - 1885 - Страниц: 472
...measurements of the bird, taken by Air. Matthew, jun., were also sent to Sir John, as follows : — From the point of the bill to the end of the tail, two feet three inches ; from tip to tip of the wings, about five feet six or eight inches and a half.... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - Страниц: 886
...hair, so that the covering of the apteryx has, at a distance, exactly the appearance of coarse fur. The length from the point of the bill to the end of the tailless body is about thirty-two inches ; but the bill varies greatly in length, and it is supposed... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - Страниц: 886
...hair, so that the covering of the apteryx has, at a distance, exactly the appearance of coarse fur. The length from the point of the bill to the end of the tailless body is about thirty-two inches ; but the bill varies greatly in length, and it is supposed... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - Страниц: 886
...hair, so that the covering of the apteryx has, at a distance, exactly the appearance of coarse fur. The length from the point of the bill to the end of the tailless body is about thirty-two inches; but the bill varies greatly in length, and it is supposed... | |
 | 1893 - Страниц: 1194
...type specimen indicates a bird about two-thirds the size of Ifesperornin reyalix, Marsh, or about four feet in length, from the point of the bill to the end of the toes. It was recently found by Mr. JB Hatcher, near the mouth of the Judith River, in Montana. New... | |
 | Robert L. Wallace - 1893 - Страниц: 500
...but to be 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... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, Elliott Coues - 1893 - Страниц: 484
...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... | |
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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. 
