| William Bingley - Animal behavior - 1803 - 606 pages
...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, called in some places Pie-annet,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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 pie-annes,... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - Didactic fiction - 1825 - 682 pages
...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... | |
| William Bingley - 1829 - 350 pages
...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, called in some places pie-annes,... | |
| James Rennie - Animal behavior - 1833 - 422 pages
...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...in such manner as our magpie, called in some places pie-annet, which the people of Lancashire call by no other name than tree-goose ; which place aforesaid,... | |
| James Rennie - Birds - 1833 - 410 pages
...the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth * Gesner, De Avibus, iii. 107, &c. ' I BERNACLE. to a fowl bigger than a mallard and lesser than a...in such manner as our magpie, called in some places pie-annet, which the people of Lancashire call by no other name than tree-goose ; which place aforesaid,... | |
| John Warren - Mollusks - 1834 - 262 pages
...corne forth, and hangeth only by the bill: in a short space after, it cometh to maturity and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth...beak, and feathers black and white, spotted in such a manner as our magpie, called in some places pie-annes, which the people of Lancashire call by no... | |
| Edward Stanley - Birds - 1835 - 334 pages
...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...fowl bigger than a Mallard, and lesser than a Goose, which the people in Lancashire call by no other name than a Tree-Goose; which place aforesaid, and... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - Children - 1836 - 394 pages
...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... | |
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