 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 606 pages
...has all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill. In short space after it cometh to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowle, bigger than a Mallard and lesser than a Goose, having black legs, and bill or beake, and feathers... | |
 | Sir Robert Sibbald - Botany - 1803 - 510 pages
...all come forth, and hangeth onely by the bill : in short space after it commeth to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to fowle bigger than a Mallard and lesser than a Goose, having blacke legs and bill or beake, and feathers... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Britannica - 1810 - 824 pages
...hangeth only by the bill : in fliort fpace after it cometh to fnll maturitie, and fallcth into the fea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowl bigger than a mallard, and IciTer than a goofe, having blacke legs, bill or beake, and feathers blacke and white, fpotted in fuch... | |
 | William Wood - 1815 - 460 pages
...all come forth, and hangeth onely by the bill : in short space after it commeth to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowle bigger than a mallard and lesser than a goose," &c. Gerard prefaces his account with " what our... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1823 - 400 pages
...cometh to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gatbereth feathers, and groweth to a fowle bigger than a mallard, and lesser than a goose, having black legs, and bill or beake, and feathers black and white, spotted in such manner as our magpie, called in some places... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - Didactic fiction - 1825 - 682 pages
...till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill ; in short space after, it cometh to maturity, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth...feathers, and groweth to a fowl bigger than a mallard, lesser than a goose, which the people of — ' " Lucy put her finger over the place. " ' Call by no... | |
 | John Stark - Natural history - 1828 - 542 pages
...is all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill ; in short space after it commeth to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a foule bigger than a mallard, and lesser than a goose, having blacke legs and bill or beake, and feathers... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 350 pages
...has all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill. In short space after it cometh to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowle, bigger than a mallard, and lesser than a goose, having black legs, and bill or beake, and feathers... | |
 | George Montagu - Birds - 1831 - 670 pages
...come forth, and hangeth only by the hill. In short space after it cometh to full maturity, and falletb into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth...mallard, and lesser than a goose, having black legs, and bill or beak, and feathers black and white, spotted in such manner as our magpie, called in some places... | |
 | James Rennie - Animal behavior - 1833 - 422 pages
...by degrees till at length it has all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill ; in short spuce after it cometh to full maturity, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth * Gesner, De Avibus, iii. 107, &c. 369 to a fowl bigger than a mallard and lesser than a goose, having... | |
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... the legs of the bird hanging out ; and, as it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees, till at length it is all come forth, and hangeth only by the bill... 
