 | British Pharmaceutical Conference - 1893 - 540 pages
...or beak, and with feathers black and white. He concludes his marvellous statement by saying it is " spotted in such manner as is our magpie, called in some places a pieannefc, which the people of Lancashire call by no other name than a tree goose, which place aforesaid,... | |
 | James Edmund Harting - Birds - 1871 - 840 pages
...it cometh to full maturitie, and falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowle bigger than a mallard and lesser than a goose,...blacke and white, spotted in such manner as is our magge-pie, called in some places a pie-annet, which the people of Lancashire call by no other name... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1895 - 486 pages
...gathereth feathers, and groweth to a foule, bigger then a Mallard, and lesser then a Goose ; hauing blacke legs and bill or beake, and feathers blacke and white, spotted in such maner as is our Magge-Pie, called in some places a Pie-Annet, which the people of Lancashire call by... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1873 - 738 pages
...the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a foule, bigger then a Mallard, and lesser then a Goose ; having blacke legs and bill or beake, and...blacke and white, spotted in such manner as is our Magge-Pie, called in some places a Pie-Annet, which the people of Lancashire call by no other name... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1873 - 792 pages
...gathereth feathers, and groweth to a foule, bigger than a Mallard, and lesser than a Gooee ; baring blackc legs and bill or beake, and feathers blacke and white, spotted in such manner as is our Magge-Pie, called in some places a Pie-Annet, which the people of Lancashire call by no otlier name... | |
 | Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1874 - 636 pages
...the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a foule, bigger then a Mallard, and lesser then a Goose ; having blacke legs and bill or beake, and...blacke and white, spotted in such manner as is our Magge-Pie, called in some places a Pie-Annej;, which the people of Lancashire call by no other name... | |
 | Henry Alleyne Nicholson - Zoology - 1875 - 258 pages
...fall into the sea, "where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to fowle bigger than a mallard and less than a goose, having blacke legs and bill or beake, and feathers blacke and white." CHAPTER X. CLASS II. ARACHNIDA. THIS class includes the Mites, Ticks, Scorpions, and Spiders, and is,... | |
 | Hakluyt Society - Northeast Passage - 1876 - 508 pages
...contemporary writer, in the passage cited in the next page, the brent goose is well described as " a fowle bigger than a mallard, and lesser than a goose,...white, spotted in such manner as is our mag-pie". It is figured and also described in the fifth volume of Gould's Birds of Europe. ' Wieringen, an island... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1876 - 188 pages
...it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a foule, bigger then a Mallard, and lesser then a Goosehamng blacke legs and bill or beake, and feathers blacke and white! spotted in such maner as is our Magge-Pie, called in some places a. PieAnnet, which the people of Lancashire call by... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1877 - 802 pages
...the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a foule, bigger then a Mallard, and lesser then a Goose, having blacke legs and bill or beake, and feathers blacke and white . . . . which the people of Lancashire call by no other name then a tree Goose." Accompanying this... | |
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... falleth into the sea, where it gathereth feathers, and groweth to a fowle bigger than a Mallard, and lesser than a Goose, having blacke legs and bill or beake, and feathers blacke and white... 
