 | 1804 - 844 pagina’s
...blue-headed crick ; arid the violet-headed crick. The crick, properly so called, is nearly a foot long, frpm the tip of the bill to the extremity of the tail. The whole body is of a green colour, which is particularly brilliant on the belly and the neck. The mealy... | |
 | 1771 - 610 pagina’s
...drawn above the figure. This fcale is in general the twelfth part of the length of the bird, meafuring from the tip of the bill to the extremity of the tail. If the fcale is threeinches long, the length of the bird is three feet ; if it is but two inches, the... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1802 - 638 pagina’s
...Myrmecopbaga aculeata. Description of the external Appearances. . The animal is 17 inches long, from the point of the bill to the extremity of the tail: the bill is i^ inch long, and the tail half an inch. The body of the animal is nearly of the same general thickness,... | |
 | 1802 - 764 pagina’s
...lieu tenants, two surgeons, three gen ticmen as volunteers, and a ship's comlength of the bird, taken from the tip of the bill to the extremity of the tail, is a foot. " Us eve is very black, and very lively. I'ts bill, which is of an ebony black, is only... | |
 | George Barrington - 1802 - 592 pagina’s
...places which surround them ; but its food is unknown. The male is 17-J- inches in length, from the point •of the bill to the extremity of the tail. The bill is 2i inches long; and the end of the tail4| inches. 13* ' 3 i 426 HISTORY OF The animal's body is compressed,... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 828 pagina’s
...hair, about ten inches bug, nearly naked, and twisted in different directions. The length of the bird, from the tip of the bill to the extremity of the tail, is nine inches and a half. The primary quill feathers are conformable to those of the other species,... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1831 - 376 pagina’s
...much diversity in the colours of its plumage. It stands rather more than two feet high, and measures in length, from the tip of the bill to the extremity of the tail, about two feet six inches. The bill is long and arched, about seven inches long, and considerably thicker... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1831 - 536 pagina’s
...much diversity in the colours of its plumage. It stands rather more than two feet high, and measures in length, from the tip of the bill to the extremity of the tail, about two feet six inches. The bill is long and arched, about seven inches long, and considerably thicker... | |
 | John Stephenson - 1832 - 450 pagina’s
...short, and furnished with papillae, and two aculeated horny points. The length of the whole animal from the tip of the bill to the extremity of the tail is nearly two feet. The tail is broad, flat, tapering, obtuse, about six inches in length, and is colored... | |
 | Michael Russell - 1835 - 356 pagina’s
...much diversity in the colours of its plumage. It stands rather more than two feet high, and measures in length, from the tip of the bill to the extremity of the tail, about two feet six inches. The bill is long and arched, about seven inches long, and considerably thicker... | |
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It is more than two feet in length from the tip of the bill to the extremity of the tail. The bill is thick and strong, compressed at the sides, the mandibles sharp at the edges ; the upper mandible curved at the tip, and exceeding the lower in length. 
