 | 1804 - 844 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1802 - 764 pages
...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... | |
 | Amasa Delano - 1817 - 622 pages
...surround them ; but its food is unknown. The male is seventeen and a half inches in length, from the point of the bill to the extremity of the tail. The bill two and a half inches long; and the end of the tail four and a half inches. The animal's body is compressed,... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 828 pages
...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 - 514 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | Leonard Jenyns - 1835 - 624 pages
...unless stated to the contrary. It may be observed that in this Class the entire length is measured from the tip of the bill to the extremity of the tail ; the length of the bill is estimated in two directions, firstly from the frontal feathers, following the... | |
 | Leonard Jenyns - 1835 - 602 pages
...unless stated to the contrary. It may be observed that in this Class the entire length is measured from the tip of the bill to the extremity of the tail ; the length of the bill is estimated in two directions, firstly from the frontal feathers, following the... | |
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Length seven inches from the tip of the bill to the extremity of the tail. The Bill two inches from the commissure to the point, and the tail twenty-seven lines. 
