hook-billed

• “I'll spy stellar jays, rufus hummers, and hook-billed thatchers on prickly pear at dusk.”

  madrigle Diary Entry

• “Fordus rushed out of the smoke, Northstar and two of the bandits beside him, as the creature took shape out of fire and cloud: an enormous hook-billed bird-its shape that of a condor or vulture, its naked head blistered and ugly, its black eyes glitter-ing like gems.”

  The Dark Queen

• “He pos­sessed a small, hook-billed instrument for the purpose of sawing odds and ends from papers and magazines.”

  The Old Silent

• “Although the figure was human the head was that of a hook-billed bird of prey.”

  Daybreak 2250 AD

• “The male is slab-sided, hook-billed, and distorted, and is rejected by the canners.”

  Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881

• “Instantly Peter crouched a little lower in his hiding-place, for he knew this for a member of the Hawk family and Peter has learned by experience that the only way to keep perfectly safe when one of these hook-clawed, hook-billed birds is about is to keep out of sight.”

  Burgess Bird Book for Children

• “Among its sixteen kingfishers, it possesses the carious hook-billed Macrorhina, and a red and blue Tanysiptera, the most beautiful of that beautiful genus.”

  The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2

• “They have hook-billed noses, crow's-feet under their sunken eyes, and a mellow tinting of the hair.”

  History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II

• “But the voice varies in the different breeds; Mr. Brent [450] says that hook-billed ducks are very loquacious, and that Rouens utter a "dull, loud, and monotonous cry, easily distinguishable by an experienced ear.”

  The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.

• “In the hook-billed duck (fig. 39) these same bones as well as the lower jaw curve downwards in a most remarkable manner, as represented.”

  The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.

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