 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 828 pages
...weighing «bout eighty pounds, and often measuring upwards of eight feet in height, and as many in length, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail ; but, from the ground to the top of the back, it seldom exceeds four feet, the rest of its height... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Americana - 1831 - 610 pages
...Europe and Asia. In America, they are most numerous about Hudson's bay, but are also found further south. In Pennsylvania, they are migratory, making...black, and four inches and three quarters long, to the comer of the mouth. The head and half of the length of the neck are of a deep black, with a green gloss,... | |
 | George Montagu - Birds - 1831 - 670 pages
...great distance. This bird measures four feet from the extremities of the wings, and three feet six inches from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail ; the train extending seven or eight inches further ; this train is composed of a great number of long... | |
 | Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - Birds - 1831 - 344 pages
...sale. The great white heron measures five feet from the extremities of the wings, and three feet six inches from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail ; the train extends seven or eight inches farther. This train is composed of a great number of long,... | |
 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - Natural history - 1831 - 522 pages
...sparrow, is the most familiar with man. It weighs about six drachms, and is about seven inches and a half from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, and about eleven between the point of each wing, when xterided. It has a slender, straight, sharp bill,... | |
 | Georges Louis Le Clerc (comte de Buffon.) - 1831 - 586 pages
...forehead : its belly is whitish, and the legs and feet of a dusky black. 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. This bird, in our climate,... | |
 | William Hone - 1832 - 874 pages
...that a latly had one of Jiess birds -which talked very finely. The length of a full-grown goldfinch, E is rive inches and a half; of which the latter is two, and the former a little more than half an inch... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - Amusements - 1833 - 640 pages
...Redshank. (Scolopax Totanus, LINN. ; Le Chevalier Яоиде^Витт.) — The length of this bird, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail is twelve inches, and to the end of the toes, fourteen inches and a half; its breadth, twenty-one inches... | |
 | 1833 - 754 pages
...but a distinct species. The following is a description of it : (SYLVIA KUFICAPILLA ? Mihi.) Length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, 5} inches in one specimen, and four inches in the other ; the tail of one is two inches in length,... | |
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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. 
