| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1842 - Liczba stron: 536
...one of the common sort The bird was skinned and cooked before Mr. Darwfo'» memory returned : but the head, neck, legs, wings, many of the larger feathers,...Magellan,' says Mr. Darwin in continuation, ' we found a half- W Indian, who had lived some years with this tribe, but had been born in the northern provinces.... | |
| 1843 - Liczba stron: 488
...grown one of the common sort. The bird was cooked and eaten before my memory returned. Fortunately, the head, neck, legs, wings, many of the larger feathers, and a large part of the skin had been preserved. From these a very nearly perfect specimen has been put together, and is now exhibited in the museum... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1846 - Liczba stron: 716
...full-grown bird of the common sort. It was cooked and eaten before my memory returned. Fortunately the head, neck, legs, wings, many of the larger feathers, and a large part of the skin, had been preserved ; and from these a very nearly perfect specimen has been put together, and is now exhibited in the... | |
| 1852 - Liczba stron: 702
...Avestruz Petise; afterward, when among the Patagonian Indians in the Straits of Magellan, Mr. Darwin found a halfbred Indian who had lived some years with...tribe, but had been born in the Northern Provinces. On being asked if he had ever heard of the Avestmz Petise, he answered by saying, "Why there are none... | |
| James Greenwood - 1862 - Liczba stron: 492
...full-grown bird of the common sort. It was cooked and eaten before my memory returned. Fortunately, the head, neck, legs, wings, many of the larger feathers, and a large part of the skin had been preserved, and from these a very nearly perfect specimen was put together." Dobrirhofiez, however, who a hundred... | |
| Julius de Mosenthal, James Edmund Harting - 1877 - Liczba stron: 318
...full-grown bird of the common sort. It was cooked and eaten before my memory returned. Fortunately, the head, neck, legs, wings, many of the larger feathers, and a large part of the skin, had been preserved ; and from these a very nearly perfect specimen has been put together, and is now exhibited in the... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1889 - Liczba stron: 628
...full-grown bird of the common sort. It was cooked and eaten before my memory returned. Fortunately the head, neck, legs, wings, many of the larger feathers, and a large part of the skin, had been preserved ; and from these a very nearly perfect specimen has been put together, and is now exhibited in the... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1896 - Liczba stron: 542
...for incubation with one cock. wLo :it> only at night. 1833.] THE AVESTRUZ PETISE. B3 Fortunately the head, neck, legs, wings, many of the larger feathers, and a large part of the skin, had been preserved ; and from these a very nearly perfect specimen has been put together, and is now exhibited in the... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1908 - Liczba stron: 542
...fullgrown bird of the common sort. It was cooked and eaten before my memory returned. Fortunately the head, neck, legs, wings, many of the larger feathers,...and a large part of the skin, had been preserved; and from these a very nearly perfect specimen has been put together, and is now exhibited in the museum... | |
| Charles Darwin - 1909 - Liczba stron: 564
...full-grown bird of the common sort. It was cooked and eaten before my memory returned. Fortunately the head, neck, legs, wings, many of the larger feathers, and a large part of the skin, had been preserved ; and from these a very nearly perfect specimen has been put together, and is now exhibited in the... | |
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