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" ... 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 23
by Sabine Baring-Gould, Alfred Newton - 1863 - 447 pages
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A Voyage to St. Kilda: The Remotest of All the Hebrides. Or, Western Isles ...

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;...
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A Voyage to St. Kilda: The Remotest of All the Hebrides Or Western Isles of ...

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...
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Description of the western isles of Scotland, called Hybrides. To which is ...

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...
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“A” General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages ..., Volume 3

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...
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The Scots Magazine and Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, Volume 76

English literature - 1814 - 1032 pages
...goose, his whole body erected, his wings short, he is palmip'js, he flyeth not at all, lays hit egg upon the bare rock, which, if taken away, he lays no more that year ; of a black colour^ red about the eyes, a large white spot under etch eye, and a long broad...
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Miscellanea Scotica: I. Life of Archbishop Sharp. Donald Munro's ...

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;...
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Miscellanea Scotica: I. Life of Archbishop Sharp. Donald Munro's ...

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...
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Miscellanea Scotica: I. Life of Archbishop Sharp. Donald Munro's ...

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...
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Visitor: Or Monthly Instructor

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...
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Videnskabelige meddelelser fra Dansk naturhistorisk forening i ..., Volume 2

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...
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