 | 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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... 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. 
