The general proportion of the length of our swiftest hawks and swallows to their breadth, is as one to two ; but in the present case, as there is not only the resistance of the air, but also that of the water, to overcome, a still greater... The Bird Book - Page 105by Fannie Hardy Eckstorm - 1901 - 281 pagesFull view - About this book
| Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte - 1831 - 344 pages
...uncommon hardness, strength, and muscularity, far surpassing, in these respects, any other water bird with which I am acquainted. To all these is added...with sufficient celerity while dipping in the water. The general proportion of the length of our swiftest hawks and swallows, to their breadth, is as one... | |
| Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington - 1831 - 384 pages
...uncommon hardness, strength, and muscularity, far surpassing, in these respects, any other water bird with which I am acquainted. To all these is added...with sufficient celerity while dipping in the water. The general proportion of the length of our swiftest hawks and swallows, to their breadth, is as one... | |
| Alexander Wilson - 1832 - 472 pages
...uncommon hardness, strength, and muscularity, far surpassing, in these respects, any other water bird with which I am acquainted. To all these is added...with sufficient celerity while dipping in the water. The general proportion of the length of our swiftest Hawks and Swallows, to their breadth, is as one... | |
| 1841 - 530 pages
...business is solely allotted, is of uncommon hardness, strength, and muscularity, far surpassing in tbese respects any other water-bird with which I am acquainted. To all these is added avast expansion of wing, l» enable the bird to sail wiih sufficient celerity while dipping in the... | |
| Richard James Morrison - 768 pages
...uncommon hardness, strength, and muscularity, far surpassing in these respects any other water bird with which I am acquainted. To all these is added...with sufficient celerity while dipping in the water. The general proportion of the length of our swiftest hawks and swallows to their breadth is as one... | |
| John Howard Hinton - 1850 - 1008 pages
...muscularity, far surpassing in these respects any other water bird yet known. To these peculiarities is added a vast expansion of wing, to enable the bird...with sufficient celerity while dipping in the water. The general proportion of the length of the swiftest hawks and swallows to their breadth, is as one... | |
| 1841 - 524 pages
...stomach or gizzard, to which this business is solely allotted, is of uncommon hardness, strength, and muscularity, far surpassing in these respects any...with which I am acquainted. To all these is added avast expansion of wing, to enable the bird to sail with sufficient celerity while dipping in the water.... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1859 - 720 pages
...stomach, or gizzard, to which this business is solely allotted, is of uncommon hardness, strength, and muscularity, far surpassing, in these respects, any...with sufficient celerity, while dipping in the water. The general proportion of the length of our swiftest hawks and swallows to their breadth, is as one... | |
| Charles Knight - 1867 - 660 pages
...solely allotted, is of uncommon hardness, strength, and muscularity, far surpassing in these respecte any other water-bird with which I am acquainted. To...these is added a vast expansion of wing, to enable the body to sail with sufficient celerity while dipping in the water. The general proportion of the wing... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1872 - 758 pages
...stomach, or gizzard, to which this business is solely allotted, is of uncommon hardness, strength, and muscularity, far surpassing, in these respects, any...with sufficient celerity, while dipping in the water. The general proportion of the length of our swiftest hawks and swallows to their breadth, is as one... | |
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