 | Donald Monro - 1774 - 240 pages
...plumage is like that of a goole. The colour of the old ones is white all over, excepting the extreme tips of the wings, which are black, and the top of...colour, turning white after they are a year old; its eggisfomewhatlels than that of aland goole, l.iiali at each end, and calls a thick fcurf, and has little... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1809 - 964 pages
...plumage is like that of a goofe. The colour of the old ones is white all over, excepting the extreme tips of the wings, which are black, and the top of...turning white after they are a year old ; its egg lomewhat lefs than that of a land-goofe, fmall at each end, and calls a thick fcurf, and has little... | |
 | John Pinkerton - Voyages and travels - 1809 - 1102 pages
...plumage is like that of a goo/e. The colour of the old ones is white all over, excepting the extreme tips of the wings, which are black, and the top of the head, which is yellow, as fome think the efftft of age. The young ones are of a dark hrowiv colour, turning white after they areayearo'tl ;... | |
 | Scotland - 1818 - 406 pages
...plumage is like that of a goose. The colour of the old ones is white all over, excepting the extreme tips of the wings, which are black, and the top of the head, which is yellow, as some think the effect of age. The young ones are of a hard brown colour, turning white after they are... | |
 | Scotland - 1818 - 412 pages
...plumage is like that of a goose. The colour of the old ones is white all over, excepting the extreme tips of the wings, which are black, and the top of the head, which is yellow, as some think the effect of age. The young ones are of a hard brown colour, turning white after they are... | |
 | Scotland - 1818 - 406 pages
...plumage is like that of a goose. The colour of the old ones is white all over, excepting the extreme tips of the wings, which are black, and the top of the head, which is yellow, as some think the effect of age. The young ones are of a hard brown colour, turning white after they are... | |
 | Andrew Crichton, John Blackader - Covenanters - 1826 - 384 pages
...plumage is like that of a goose. The colour of the old ones is white all over, excepting the extreme tips of the wings, which are black, and the top of the head which is yellow, as some think the effect of age. The young ones are of a bad brown colour, turning white after they are... | |
 | 1843 - 488 pages
...plumage is like that of a goose. The colour of the old ones is white all over, excepting the extreme tips of the wings, which are black, and the top of the head, which is yellow, as some think the effect of age. The young ones are of a hard brown colour, turning white after they are... | |
 | George Seton - 1878 - 386 pages
...plumage is like that of a goose. The colour of the old ones is white all over, excepting the extreme tips of the wings, which are black, and the top of the head, which is yellow, as some think the effect of age. 1 The young ones are of a dark-brown colour, turning white after they... | |
 | 1794 - 534 pages
...dead on the fpot. This goofe is almoft as large as a land goole, of a white colour, except the tops of the wings, which are black, and the top of the head, which is yellow. The bill is long and (harp-pointed, extremely hard, and pierces an inch deep into wood. There is an... | |
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... it hath four toes ; the feet and legs black as far as they are bare ; the plumage is like that of a goose. The colour of the old ones is white all over, excepting the extreme tips of the wings, which are black, and the top of the head, which is yellow,... 