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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1776 edition. Excerpt: ... to take their prey in the midst of the greatest crowds; and it was forbidden to kill them. The tail of this kind is sufficient to distinguish it, from all other Britijh birds of prey, being forked. Pliny thinks that the invention of the rudder arose from the observation men made of the various motions of that part, when the kite was steering through the airs. Certain it is that the mostuseful arts were originally copied from animals; however we may now have improved upon them. Still in those nations which are in a state of nature, (such as the Samoieds and Esquimaux) their dwellings are inferior to those of the beavers, which those scarcely human beings but poorly copy. Descrip. The weight of this species is forty-four ounces the length twenty-seven: the breadth five feet one inch. The bill is two inches long, and very much Belon obs. adfinem Clus. exet. 108. f Iidem videntur artcm gubernandi docuisle caudae flexibus. Lib. x. e. 10. hooked at the end: the cere yellow: irides of a straw-color. The head and chin are of a light grey, in some, white, marked with oblong streaks of black: the neck and breast are of a tawny red, but the middle of the feathers black. On the belly and thighs, the spots are fewer, and under the tail they almost vanish. The upper part of the back is brown, the middle covered with very soft white down. The five first quil feathers are black; the inner webs of the others dusky barred with black, and the lower edges white. The coverts of the wings are varied with tawny black and white: the tail is forked, and of a tawny red: the outmost feather on each side of a darker hue than the rest; and marked with a few obscure dusky spots: the thighs are covered with very long feathers: the legs are yellow and strong...
| ISBN-13 | 9781152876255 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1152876252 |
| Weight | 0.61 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.42 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 182 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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