 About 1638, as I walked London streets I saw the picture of a strange fowl hong 'out upon. a cloth vas and myselfe with one or two more Gen. in company went in to see it. It was kept in a chamber, and was a great fowle somewhat bigger than the largest...  A Dictionary of Birds - Page 157by Alfred Newton - 1893 - 1212 lehteFull view - About this book
 | 1838 - 530 lehte
...one or two more Gen. in company went in to sec it. It was kept in a chamber, and was a great fowle somewhat bigger than the largest Turkey Cock and so legged and footed but stouter and thicker and of a more erect shape, coloured before like the breast of a yong Cock Fesan... | |
 | Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, John Eller Taylor - 1868 - 302 lehte
...with one or two more in company, went in to see it. It was kept in a chamber, and was a great^fowle, somewhat bigger than the largest turkey cock, and so legged and footed, but stouter and thicker, and of a more erected shape, coloured before like the breast of a young cock fesan,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 586 lehte
...one or two more Gen. in company went in to see it. It was kept in a chamber, and was a great fowle somewhat bigger than the largest Turkey Cock and so legged and footed but stouter and thicker and of a. more erect shape, coloured before like the breast of a yong Cock Fesau... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1867 - 630 lehte
...one or two more Gen. in company went in to see it. It was kept in a chamber, and was a great fowle somewhat bigger than the largest Turkey Cock and so legged and footed but stouter and thicker and of a. more erect shape, coloured before like the breast of a yong Cock Fesan... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1874 - 838 lehte
...a living specimen was exhibited in London, and described by Sir Hamon Lestrange as a "great fowle, somewhat bigger than the largest turkey cock, and so legged and footed, but stouter and thicker and of a more erect shape, colored before like the breast of a young fesan, and... | |
 | 1878 - 374 lehte
...and going in to see it found n great bird kept in a chamber " somewhat bigger than the largest Turky cock, and so legged and footed, but shorter and thicker...1651 Morisot published an account of a voyage made by François Cauche, who professed to have passed fifteen days in Mauritius, or " l'isle de Saínete Anollonie,"... | |
 | Henry Cadwallader Adams - 1883 - 412 lehte
...or two more gentlemen in company went in to see it. It was kept in a chamber, and was a great fowl, somewhat bigger than the largest Turkey cock, and so legged and footed, but stouter and thicker and of a more erect shape, coloured before like the breast of a young cock. The... | |
 | 1888 - 870 lehte
...and going in to see it found a great bird kept in a chamber " somewhat bigger than the largest Turky cock, and so legged and footed, but shorter and thicker." The keeper called it s Dodo and shewed the visitors how his captive would swallow " large peble stones as bigge as nutmegs."... | |
 | 1890 - 918 lehte
...a chamber " somewhat bigger than the largest Turky cock, and so legged and footed, but shorter aud thicker." The keeper called it a Dodo and shewed the visitors how his captive would ewallow " large peble stones as bigge as nutmegs." In 1651 Morisot published an account of a voyage... | |
 | Robert Theodore Gunther - 1925 - 712 lehte
...hanging out in a London street. The original was shown to Sir Hamon Lestrange, who described it as ' somewhat bigger than the largest Turkey cock, and so legged and footed, but shorter and thicker'. It swallowed 'large pebble stones ... as bigge as nutmegs'. Its keeper called it a Dodo ; and it may... | |
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