 | Thomas Wallace Knox - 1885 - 546 páginas
...CONDOR. than nine feet, and the largest specimen seen by Darwin measured eight and a half feet. The body from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail is from three to three and a half feet in extreme length. Equally exaggerated were the stories about... | |
 | Thomas Bewick - 1885 - 462 páginas
...ordinairc, Temni. THE weight of this bird varies from ten and a half to fifteen ounces: the length from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail is about fourteen inches, the breadth twenty-two. The bill is rather more than an inch long, of a greenish... | |
 | Fishery Board for Scotland - 1886 - 484 páginas
...sell, expose for sale, consign for sale, or buy for sale, any lobster which measures less than 8 inches from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail, when spread as far as possible flat. Every person who acts in contravention of this section shall be... | |
 | Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom - 1897 - 456 páginas
...size is 4J inches, measured across the broadest part of the back, and for lobsters 8 inches, measured from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail. Now both these sizes are considerably below the sizes at which the greater number of the animals begin... | |
 | 1890 - 566 páginas
...call it Amblyornis musgraviunus. It is somewhat larger than A. subalaris, and measures about 10 inches from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail j the wings and back are of a dull darkish green ; the throat, breast, and belly of a uniform brown... | |
 | Daniel Jay Browne - 1892 - 126 páginas
...want of a due balance of parts. The pouter is of large size, often measuring eighteen inches in length from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail. The chest is not really voluminous, though it appears enormous when the crop is distended with air;... | |
 | 1893 - 544 páginas
...neck, which gives it a snake-like appearance when swimming, as it does, with the body under water. From the tip of the beak to the end of the tail it measures 39 inches. — J. WILLS. Notes on some of Madagascar Hollers. — Fam.Coraciidaz; Subfam.Coraciince.... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing - 1893 - 538 páginas
...species, Palinurus tumidus, has recently been described by Mr. TW Kirk as measuring twenty-four inches from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail, and as having the carapace very much swollen, and measuring 21ij inches in circumference. The European... | |
 | Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom - 1897 - 472 páginas
...size is 4^ inches, measured across the broadest part of the back, and for lobsters 8 inches, measured from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail. Now both these sizes are considerably below the sizes at which the greater number of the animals begin... | |
 | Scotland - 1900 - 664 páginas
...expose for sale, consign for sale, or buy for sale any lobster which measures less than eight inches from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail when spread as far as possible flat. Every person who acts in contravention of this section shall bo... | |
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... inches from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail when spread as far as possible flat. 
