 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1892 - 538 pages
...till at length it is all come foorth, and j1angeth only by the bill, in short space after it 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 floose: having blacke legs and bill or beake, and feathers... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1892 - 568 pages
...all come foorth, and hangeth only by the bill, in sliort space after it eommeth to full matnritie. and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fonle, bigger than a Mallard, and lesser than a Goose; having blacke legs and bill or beake. and feathers... | |
 | 1893 - 538 pages
...gapeth open, and gradually a bird appears, which, falling into the sea, gathereth feathers and growoth to a fowl, bigger than a mallard and lesser than a goose, having black legs and bill or beak, and with feathers black and white. He concludes his marvellous... | |
 | Sir D'Arcy Power - 1897 - 326 pages
...any one speaking close to you. If you look the bill ; in short space after it cometh to full maturity and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers...fowl bigger than a mallard and lesser than a goose, having black legs anil bill or beak, and feathers black and white, spotted in such manner as is our... | |
 | 1897 - 328 pages
...any one speaking close to you. If you look the bill ; in short space after it cometh to full maturity and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers...fowl bigger than a mallard and lesser than a goose, having black legs anil bill or beak, and feathers black and white, spotted in such manner as is our... | |
 | Sir D'Arcy Power - 1897 - 334 pages
...speaking close to you. If you look the bill ; in short space after it cometh to full maturity an,l falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers...fowl bigger than a mallard and lesser than a goose, having black legs and bill or beak, and feathers black and white, spotted in such manner as is our... | |
 | 1897 - 912 pages
...after it cometh to full maturity, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and growctb to a fowl bigger than a mallard, and lesser than a goose,' etc. All this was represented as constantly taking place on the coast of Lanca shire and the Hebrides,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1898 - 982 pages
...after it cometh to full maturity, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweta to a fowl bigger than a mallard, and lesser than a goose," etc. AH this was represented as constantly taking place on the coast of Lancashire and the Hebrides,... | |
 | Elinor Mordaunt - 1911 - 338 pages
...length it is all come forth and hangeth only by the bill ; a short time after it comes to full maturity, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers and groweth to a fowl, bigger than a mallard and less than a goose, having black legs and bill or beak, and feathers black and white in such a manner... | |
 | Harry Kirke Swann - 1913 - 328 pages
...it groweth greater, it openeth the shell by degrees till at length it is all come forth and hangeth only by the bill : in short space after, it cometh...falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers," etc. Turner, who calls it " Bernicle " (" Avium Praecip. Hist.," 1544), writing from the evidence of... | |
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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... 
