 | Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon - 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,... | |
 | Francis Lieber, Edward Wigglesworth, Thomas Gamaliel Bradford - 1831 - 628 pages
...no moisture. The Greenlanders also make the same use of them. The loon measures two feet ten inches from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, and four feet six inches in breadth : the bill is strong, of a glossy black, 'and four inches and three... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1833 - 754 pages
...applied, 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,... | |
 | Prideaux John Selby - 1833 - 596 pages
...of the female, it appears to be a young bird. Its dimensions, when recently killed, were as follows. Length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail two feet one inch. Breadth with extended wings five feet. The male is of inferior size, and is much... | |
 | 1833 - 468 pages
...by one-third from the original drawing, coloured, the description of which is as follows:—"Total length, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, eleven inches. Bill longer and rather more curved than in the common cuckoo; the upper mandible of... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 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... | |
 | John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson - 1834 - 698 pages
...specimen, which was given me by your correspondent, " A Grenada Subscriber." Its dimensions are : — Length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, 4 ft. 2 in. ; expansion of wings about 1 1 ft. 4 in. ; the humerus measures 17 in. in length, the radius... | |
 | 1834 - 700 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 extended. It has a slender, straight, sharp bill,... | |
 | Leonard Jenyns - 1835 - 602 pages
...Brit. An. p. 149. Imbricated Turtle, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vol. in. part ip 89. pi. 26. DIHENS. General length, from the tip of the bill to the end of the shell, about three feet : has been known to measure five feet. SHA.W. DESCRIPT. Body roundish-ovate,... | |
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The length of the peacock, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail', is about three feet eight inches. 
