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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. "
A Natural History of the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes, Serpents ... - Page 80
by Mary Trimmer - 1825
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The Preceptor: Containing a General Course of Education. Wherein ..., Volume 2

Robert Dodsley - 1758 - 586 pages
...bold, and very voracious and fierce in devouring his Prey. He is of a large Size, near four Feet long from the Point of the Bill to the End of the Tail ; and betwixt the Points of each Wing, when extended, near fix Feet ; his Beak is very ftrong, crooked...
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The preceptor: containing a general course of education [ed. by R. Dodsley].

Preceptor - 1758 - 590 pages
...bold, jtnd very voracious and fierce in devouring his Prey. He It of a large Size, near four Feet long from the Point of the Bill to the End of the Tail ; and betwixt the Points of each Wing, when extended, near fix Feet ; his Beak is very ftrong, crooked...
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Glanures D'histoire Naturelle, Consistant en Figures de Quadrupedes, D ...

George Edwards - 1760 - 290 pages
...from its natural fize : its wings, when extended, meafured three feet and an half from tip to tip ; from the point of the bill to the end of the tail it meafured two feet. The Hawk's bill is of a blueiih colour: the edges of the upper mandible are waved...
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A Natural History of English Song-birds, and Such of the Foreign as are ...

Eleazar Albin - 1759 - 160 pages
...this, but in Weight, one three Ounces, the other three and an Half. The Length of a full-grown Bird, from the Point of the Bill, to the End of the Tail, is nine Inches ; of which the Bill is one, and the Tail three and a Half; therefore, allowing for Tail,...
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A Description of Three Hundred Animals,: Viz. Beasts, Birds, Fishes ...

Thomas Boreman - 1769 - 110 pages
...been done by Nature's Inftinft, had he not with his own Eyes feen it. 19. THE HORN OWL is in Length, from the Point of the Bill to the End of the Tail, about fourteen Inches ; its Breadth, meafuring from Tip to Tipof the Wings extended, three Feet and...
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An Easy Introduction to the Arts and Sciences:: Being a Short, But ...

Richard Turner - 1792 - 296 pages
...bold, and very voracious and fierce in devouring his prey. He is of a great fize, near four feet long from the point of the bill to the end of the tail ; and between the points of each wing, when extended, near fix feet : his beak is very ftrong, crooked,...
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Fauna Orcadensis: Or, The Natural History of the Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles ...

George Low - 1813 - 272 pages
...contentedly to a piece of dead horse if it can get it. In bulk it almost equals a goose ; the length, from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, two feet three inches, but if measured to the claws it is two feet five ; when the wings are extended...
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History and description of water birds

1816 - 386 pages
...Cigogne, Buff.) THE "White Stork is smaller than the Crane, but much larger than the Heron : its 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...
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A Compendium of Zoology,: Being a Description of More Than Three Hundred ...

Thomas Boreman - 1818 - 420 pages
...time sufficient to build another. THE HOOPOE 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...
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A Natural History of All the Most Remarkable Quadrupeds, Birds, Fishes ...

J. Macloc - 1820 - 348 pages
...and the spots with which her body is covered almost all over, are more inclining to a red. THE SNIPE. THIS bird measures, from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, about twelve inches; and from the point of each wing, when extended, about fifteen or sixteen ; the...
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