 | 1856 - 530 стор.
...and replace it by fresh. Then take the dimensions from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, from the tip of one wing to that of the other, when both are extended ; and from the tip of the wing to the tirst or carpaljoint, as already indicated.... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution - 1862 - 738 стор.
...and replace it by fresh. Then take the dimensions from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, from the tip of one wing to that of the other, when both are extended, and from the tip of the wing to the first or carpal-joint, aa already indicated.... | |
 | James Curtis Booth, Campbell Morfit - 1862 - 740 стор.
...and replace it by fresh. Then take the dimensions from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, from the tip of one wing to that of the other, when both are extended, and from the tip of the wing to the first or carpal-joint, as already indicated.... | |
 | 1872 - 728 стор.
...and replace it by fresh. Then take the dimensions from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, from the tip of one wing to that of the other, when both are extended, and from the tip of the wing to the first or carpal-joint, as already indicated.... | |
 | Zoeth Skinner Eldredge - 1909 - 92 стор.
...a great bird the Indians had killed and stuffed with straw, and which measured seven feet and four inches from the tip of one wing to that of the other. It was thought to be a royal eagle, and that the natives were preparing it for some ceremony when they... | |
 | Harry Johnston - 1913 - 364 стор.
...were thought by Cook to be larger than those of the Atlantic Ocean. One of them measured 10 feet 2 inches from the tip of one wing to that of the other. Their bodies, after being carefully skinned, were soaked in salt water, parboiled also in sea water,... | |
 | Sara Suleri Goodyear - 1992 - 241 стор.
...The sportsmen returned with forty head of game: in this number was an albatross, measuring nine feet from the tip of one wing to that of the other. . . . When the boat returned, it brought good fortune, and we went on our way rejoicing" (WP, vol. 1, p. 9). By... | |
 | Harry Hamilton Johnston - 2000 - 352 стор.
...were thought by Cook to be larger than those of the Atlantic Ocean. One of them measured 10 feet 2 inches from the tip of one wing to that of the other. Their bodies, after being carefully skinned, were soaked in salt water, parboiled also in sea water,... | |
 | Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication - 1845 - 290 стор.
...four feet in length, and about nine feet across the wings: one specimen measured eleven feet three inches from the tip of one wing to that of the other, and weighed eighteen pounds. The female, as is the case with other birds of prey, is larger than the... | |
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E. As the weather was frequently calm, Mr. Banks went out in a small boat to shoot birds, among which were some albatrosses and sheerwaters. The albatrosses were observed to be larger than those which had been taken northward of the... 
