 | 1821 - 734 sider
...been much larger than any of the seven rhinoceroses which my party shot, one of which measured eleven feet from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail. The skull and horn excited great curiosity at the Cape. Most were of opinion that it was all... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1836 - 566 sider
...Circumference at the root 1 H The native who killed this bison, said it measured seven cubits (10J feet) from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail, and was 5 feet 7 inches high ; the colour being that of buffalo, or grayish black. The Head of... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland - 1836 - 648 sider
...the root ................ I 1J The native who killed this bison, said it measured seven cubits (Hi', feet) from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail, and was 5 feet 7 inches high ; the colour being that of buffalo, or grayish black. The Head of... | |
 | 1841 - 404 sider
...the butts of our rifles, finding it, even then, no easy matter to overcome him. He was almost four feet from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail, and at least two feet and a half high. Brian was the first to blame himself for his rashness... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1853 - 332 sider
...bright yellow of the ground on which they lie, must strike every beholder. His body usually measures six feet, from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail ; the head is smooth ; the ears are small and rounded ; the legs are nearly white in the inside,... | |
 | William Baird - 1858 - 642 sider
...inoffensive creatures. The great kangaroo. Macropui major, is the largest species, measuring five or six feet from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail, and when sitting appears about the height of a man. To the aborigines of Australia, the kangaroo... | |
 | John Henry Gray - 1878 - 558 sider
...becoming a very fine animal, standing about six feet high at the shoulders, and measuring about ten feet from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail. The largest specimen which I saw during my long residence in China was on the occasion of a visit... | |
 | United States. Bureau of Manufactures - 1885 - 724 sider
...hunted down with dogs and guns. Some of these animals killed in Australia were found to measure 5J feet from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail, the latter measuring 3$ feet in addition, thus making the animal 9 feet in length. The head of... | |
 | Angelo Heilprin - 1886 - 472 sider
...forests of Brazil and Guiana, the largest living representative of the family, measuring upwards of three feet from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail. Fossil remains of edentate animals are not numerous, and are in the main confined to the Pliocene... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1887 - 886 sider
...South Wales during Cook's first voyage. An adult male in the British Museum measures more than five feet from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail, the latter being three and one-half feet additional; the female is about one-third smaller. The... | |
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... ten feet from the tip of the nose to the root of the tail, eight feet around the body just behind the fore legs, and weighed from fifteen to seventeen hundred pounds. 
