They have a sort of peak, like a widow's, upon their breasts (lege beaks), which is of a dun colour. No one feather is straggling from the other all over their bodies, they being very careful to adjust themselves, and make them all even with their beaks.... Archiv für Naturgeschichte - Page 1281848Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| 1837 - 1032 pages
...wonderfully beautiful, some fair, some brown ; I call them fair because they are of the colour of fair hair : * B + 5hk[ ֿ ? (/ I! :vmpbZ S ʊ '^ a hw f vmG c \ - No one feather is straggling from the other all over their bodies, being very careful to adjust themselves... | |
| 1838 - 530 pages
...wonderfully beautiful, some fair, some brown ; I call them fair because they are of the colour of fair hair : they have a sort of peak, like a widow's, upon their breasts, which is of a dun colour. No one feather is straggling from the other all over their bodies, being very careful to adjust themselves... | |
| 1848 - 422 pages
...wonderfully beautiful, some fair, some brown ; I call them fair, because they are of the colour of fair hair. They have a sort of peak, like a widow's upon their breasts \lege beaks], which is of a dun colour. No one feather is straggling from the other all over their... | |
| Zoological Society of London - 1851 - 348 pages
...wonderfully beautiful, some fair, some hrown ; I call them fair, because they are of the colour of fair hair. They have a sort of peak, like a widow's, upon their breasts (lege beaks), which is of a dun colour. No one feather is straggling from the other all over their... | |
| William Somerville Orr - 1855 - 564 pages
...wonderfully beautiful, some fair, some brown ; I call them fair, because they arc of the colour of fair hair. They have a sort of peak, like a widow's, upon their breasts (beaks ?), which is of a dun colour. No one feather is straggling from the other all over their bodies,... | |
| British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology - 1893 - 776 pages
...beautiful, some fair, some brown ; I call them fair, because they are of the colour of fair Hair : They have a sort of Peak like a Widow's upon their Breasts (lege beaks), which is of dun Colour. No one Feather is stragling from the other all over their Bodies,... | |
| Richard Lydekker, William Forsell Kirby, Bernard Barham Woodward, Randolph Kirkpatrick, Reginald Innes Pocock, Richard Bowdler Sharpe, Walter Garstang, Francis Arthur Bather, Henry Meyners Bernard - 1897 - 800 pages
...wonderfully beautiful, some fair, some brown ; I call them fair, because they are^of the colour of fair hair. They have a sort of peak, like a widow's, upon their breasts (lege beaks), which is of dun colour. No one feather is straggling from the other all over their bodies,... | |
| 1851 - 324 pages
...wonderfully beautiful, some fair, some brown ; I call them fair, because they are of the colour of fair hair. They have a sort of peak, like a widow's, upon their breasts (lege beaks), which is of a dun colour. No one feather is straggling from the other all over their... | |
| Zoological Society of London - 1851 - 370 pages
...wonderfully beautiful, some fair, some brown ; I call them fair, because they are of the colour of fair hair. They have a sort of peak, like a widow's, upon their breasts (leye beaks), which is of a dun colour. No one feather is straggling from the other all over their... | |
| 1854 - 516 pages
...wonderfully beautiful, some fair, some brown ; I call them fair, because they are of the colour of fair hair. They have a sort of peak, like a widow's, upon their breasts (lege beaks), which is of a dun colour. No one feather is straggling from the other all over their... | |
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