| George Thornton Emmons - 1911 - 474 páginas
...of the skins of large hawks, both in poor condition. The best preserved skin as it lies measures 26" from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail. About the neck is a piece of red cloth 3|" wide, bound with a cord made of hair, and a buckskin string... | |
| Arnold Henry Savage Landor - 1913 - 580 páginas
...untamable. I saw a couple of these birds. They were really magnificent — certainly three feet in length from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail. When the steamer was close enough to the banks or an island we occasionally saw small groups of assahy... | |
| Oren F. Morton - 1916 - 612 páginas
...monarch of the air is the gray eagle. In 1901 an eagle was killed in this county that measured 36 inches from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail, and the spread of the wings was seven feet. The rainfall is well distributed and the soils take naturally... | |
| 1918 - 966 páginas
...South .-¿frican bird, time head reaching about 81,4 ft. froumi the ground; time length of the body from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail is about 8 ft., and the total weight about 275 lbs. The neck is a 1 so longer, .about 33/2 ft. in lemmgth,... | |
| Charles Otis Whitman - 1919 - 454 páginas
...albicantibus; collo superiore torque nigro cincto. "It is nearly of the size of the merle. Its length, from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail, is nine inches and six lines; to the end of the toe-nails, seven inches and eight lines. The beak,... | |
| 1919 - 784 páginas
...than the South African bird, the head reaching about 8J feet from the ground ; the length of the body from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail is about 8 feet, and the total weight about 275 Ibs. The neck is also longer, about 3J feet in length,... | |
| Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1920 - 720 páginas
...Wyoming, a region from which he obtained the skulls and other skeletal parts of more than 40 individuals. From the tip of the beak to the end of the tail, the Triceratops is 19 feet 8 inches in length, and in front of the hips is 8 feet 2 inches in height.... | |
| George Colwell Oke, Hubert Hull - 1924 - 272 páginas
...It is also a penal offence to have in possession or sell, any lobster measuring less than 8 inches from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail when stretched as far as possible flat (o). The penalty is £2 for the first, and £10 for the second... | |
| John Bell Hatcher - 1907 - 486 páginas
...represent the color and texture of the Laramie sandstone in which the remains of these animals are found. From the tip of the beak to the end of the tail the skeleton as restored is 19 feet 8 inches in length. The skull, which is 6 feet long, equals nearly... | |
| Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1882 - 940 páginas
...lower jaw projected lx)th in front of and to the sides of the upper jaw. The length of the animal, from the tip of the beak to the end of the tail, was about 37 feet, and the girth round the belly about 15 feet The whale was taken possession of by... | |
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