...GIAST KJVOFISIIEH. (L>acdo gigantea.) This is the largest species known, measuring eighteen inches from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail : the colour of the plumage chiefly composed of olive- brown and a pale bluegreen. Native of Auntralio...

...Cygnus musicus, or whistling swan, is the largest migratory bird of Europe or America. It is 5 feet long from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, and 8 feet from tip to tip of the wings : its plumage is pure white, tinged orange or yellow on the...

...the base, with a broad black fascia near their tips, which are gray. Bill and feet yellow. Extreme length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail nearly ten inches. The colours of the female are more sordid, and the forehead and chin, instead of...

...of the sparrow. The Cuckoo is somewhat less than the -magpie, his length being about twelve inches from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail. He is remarkable for his round prominent nostrils ; the lower part of the body is of a yellowish colour,...

...the leathers drop from their bodies, and ore again renewed every spring. The length of the peacock, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, is about three feet eight inches. Some of its longest feathers are four feet long. This bird appears...

...little susceptible of fear at his approach and presence. The Wagtail is about seven inches and a half in length, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, and eleven inches in breadth, between the point of each extended wing : it has a sharp bill of an inch...

...feet and claws black ; the bare skin about the head is redder in the male than in the female. in. lin. Length from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, about 14 0 of bill from gape 1 1 of bill from front 0 10 of wings 8 б of tail, not quite 3 0 of tarsus...

...extend to a length of nearly two feet. The bill is horn-colour, and the feet lead colour. The whole length, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, is about one foot one inch. Soon after our arrival, says the same author, speaking 131 of the country...

...are shaped something like the heads of arrows or darts. The Spotted redshank The length of this bird, from the tip of the bill to the end of the tail, is twelve inches, and to the end of the toes fourteen inches and a half; its breadth twenty-one inches...

...; under tail-coverts luminous green ; primaries purplish brown ; bill black ; feet blackish brown. Length from the tip of the bill to the end of the central tail feathers, 6 inches ; to the end of the elongated feathers, 8| ; bill, 1 £ ; tail, 2f...