 | Charles Leonard-Stuart, George Jotham Hagar - 1912 - 688 стор.
...is short, rounded, and composed of 10 or 12 feathers. The common heron is about three feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, builds its nest in high trees, many being sometimes on one tree. Its food consists of fish, frogs,... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1921 - 604 стор.
...rounded, and composed of ten or twelve feathers The common heron (Ardca cineria) u about 3 feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, builds Itiicst in high trees, many being sometime* on one tree. Its food consists of fish, frogs, molluscs,... | |
 | Charles Morris - 1923 - 504 стор.
...and composed of ten or twelve feathers The common heron (Árdea cinérea) is about 3 feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, builds Its nest in high trees, many being sometimes on one tree. Its food consists of fish, frogs.... | |
 | Gary E. Moulton, Thomas W. Dunlay - 1990 - 774 стор.
...near the meat of the whale we Saw: W. 25 Ib. measured from the tips of the wings across 9'/2 feet, from the point of the Bill to the end of the tail 3 feet 10 '/4 inches, middle toe 5^2 inches, toe nale 1 inch & 3 '/2 lines, wing feather 2 '/2 feet... | |
 | Gunther Barth - 1990 - 257 стор.
...on the beach. It "measured from the tips of the wings across 91/2 feet," Clark reported carefully, "from the point of the Bill to the end of the tail 3 feet 10- 1/4 inches, middle toe 5- 1/2 inches, toe nail i inch & 3- 1/2 lines, wing feather 2- 1/2... | |
 | 1895 - 478 стор.
...ss, pp. 144-0, plate vtii. The most interesting object in this figure is an emu 3 feet 9 inches long from the point of the bill to the end of the tail. The neck is too short and the legs too thick near the feet, but I feel certain the picture wan drawn... | |
 | Alan Feduccia - 1999 - 220 стор.
...and finding them agree, I conceive it sufficient to recite his account of it as follows: "Its length, from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, or of the feet, is forty-two inches. The bill itself, from the angles of the mouth, is extended two... | |
 | Gary E. Moulton - 2002 - 548 стор.
...near the meat of the whale we Saw; \V. 25 Ib. measured from the tips of the wings across 9 '/j feet, from the point of the Bill to the end of the tail 3 feet lo'/i inches, middle toe 5'/2 inches, toe nale i inch & 3 '/2 lines, wing feather 2 '/j feet... | |
 | Meriwether Lewis, William Clark - 2002 - 560 стор.
...Vulture] of the large Kind38 near the whale we Saw measured from the tips of the wings across 9'/z feet, from the point of the Bill to the end of the tail 3 feet 10-'/4 inches, middle toe 5-'/z inches, toe nale 1 inch & 3-'/z lines, wing feather 2-'/z feet... | |
 | Elliot Coues - 2007 - 477 стор.
...califernianus, which Clark H 150 carefully describes. It measured g}4 feet from tip to tip, 3 feet 10% inches from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, the tail 14^ inches, the head and beak &)% inches. This is one of the earliest measaretnents ever made... | |
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The great blue heron (Ardea herodias) is about four feet in length from the point of the bill to the end of the tail, and nearly six feet across the wings. 
