 ... falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowle bigger than a Mallard, and lesser than a Goose, having blacke legs and bill or beake, and feathers blacke and white...  Works Issued by the Hakluyt Society - Page 77by Hakluyt Society - 1876 - 291 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Robert Sibbald - Botany - 1803 - 510 pages
...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,...and white, spotted in such manner as is our Mag-Pie, called in some places a Pie-Annct, which the people of Lancashire call by no other Dame than a tree... | |
 | William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 606 pages
...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 black and white, spotted in such manner as our Mag-pie,... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1823 - 400 pages
...it 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,... | |
 | John Stark - Natural history - 1828 - 542 pages
...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 black and white." — " For the truth whereof, if any doubt, may it please them to repaire unto me,... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 350 pages
...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 black and white, spotted in such manner as our magpie,... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1835 - 566 pages
...it commcih to full maturitic, and fiilleth into the sea, where it gathen-ш feathers, and groweth to a fowle bigger than a mallard and lesser than a goose, having blacke legs and bill or beak.-, and feathers blacke :\nd white, spotted in such manner at ь our mag-pie, called in some places... | |
 | Robert Thomas Hampson - Calendar - 1841 - 512 pages
...full maturitie, and falleth into the see, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowle biggar than a mallard, and lesser than a goose ; having blacke...beake, and feathers blacke and white, spotted in such a manner as is our magpies, called in some places a pie-annet, which the people in Lancashire call... | |
 | 1852 - 1202 pages
...gathereth feathers and groweth to a foule bigger than a mallard, and lesser than a goose, having hlacke legs and bill or beake, and feathers blacke and white spotted in such manner as is our maggo Pie.'1 — The Hcrball or General ffistorie of Plants. By John Gerard of London, Master in Chirurgerie.... | |
 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - 1854 - 508 pages
...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,...and white spotted, in such manner as is our magpie, called in some places a Pie-annet, which the people of Lancashire call by no other name than a tree-goose... | |
 | Thomas Rymer Jones - Marine animals - 1858 - 588 pages
...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,...beake, and feathers blacke and white spotted in such a manner as our mag-pie, called in some places a Pie-Annet, which the people of Lancashire call by... | |
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