 ... breast, ie a bare spot from which the feathers have fallen off with the heat in hatching; its egg is twice as big as that of a Solan goose, and is variously spotted, black, green, and dark ; it comes without regard 'to any wind, appears the first...  Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas - Page 21by Sabine Baring-Gould, Alfred Newton - 1863 - 447 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Martin Martin - Saint Kilda (Scotland) - 1749 - 96 pages
...more for that Year ; it is Palmipes, or whole-footed, and has the Hatching-fpot upon its Breaft, L e. a bare Spot from which the Feathers have fallen off with the Heat in Hatching ; its Egg is twice as big as that of a Solan Goofe, and is varioufly fpotted, black, green, and dark;... | |
 | Martin Martin - Saint Kilda - 1753 - 96 pages
...lays no more for that Year; (he is whole-footed, and has the hatching Spot upon her Breaft, /'. e. a bare Spot from which the Feathers have fallen off with the Heat in hatching; its Egg is twice as big as that of a Solan Goofe, and is varioufly fpotted, Black, Green, and Dark... | |
 | Donald Monro - 1774 - 240 pages
...more for that year; flie is whole footed, and has the hatching fpot upon her bvcaft, i. e- a bare fpot from which the feathers have fallen off with- the heat in hatching ; its egg is twice as big as that of a Solan goofe, and is varioufly fpotted, black, green and dark... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1809 - 964 pages
...mqre' for that year ; (he is whole-footed, and has the hatching fpot upon her breaft, ie a bare fpot from which the feathers have fallen off with the heat in hatching ; its egg is twice as big as that of a Solan goofe, and is varioufly fpotted, black, green, and dark... | |
 | Scotland - 1818 - 406 pages
...taken away, she lays no more for that year; she is whole footed, and has the hatching spot upon her breast, ie a bare spot from which the feathers have fallen off with the heat in hatching; its egg is twice as big as that of a Solan goose, and is variously spotted, black, green, and dark;... | |
 | Scotland - 1818 - 412 pages
...taken away, she lays no more for that year ; she is whole footed, and has the hatching spot upon her breast, ie a bare spot from which the feathers have fallen off with the heat in hatching; its egg is twice as big as that of a Solan goose, and is variously spotted, black, green, and dark... | |
 | Scotland - 1818 - 406 pages
...lays no more for that year ; she is whole footed, and has the hatching spot upon her breast, i. ea bare spot from which the feathers have fallen off with the heat in hatching ; its egg is twice as big as that of a Solan goose, and is variously spotted, black, green, and dark... | |
 | 1843 - 488 pages
...lays no more for that year ; she is whole-footed, and has the hatching-spot upon her breast, that is, a bare spot from which the feathers have fallen off with the heat in hatching ; its egg is twice as big as that of a solan goose, and is variously spotted, black, green, and dark... | |
 | Dansk naturhistorisk forening - Natural history - 1855 - 524 pages
...talten away, she lays no more for thai year; she is whole-footed, and has the hatching spot upon her breast, ie a bare spot, from which the feathers have fallen off with the heat in hatehing; its egg is twice as big as that of a Solan goose, and is variously spotted, black, green... | |
 | William Jardine - Birds - 1866 - 458 pages
...stately, his whole body erected; his wings short; he flyeth not at all ; lays his egg upon the bare rock, which, if taken away, he lays no more for that year...spot, from which the feathers have fallen off with the beat in hatching ; his egg is twice as big as that of a solan goose, and is variously spotted, black,... | |
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