How To Use boatbill In A Sentence
- While in quest of these, the blue heron, the large and small brown heron, the boatbill and muscovy duck now and then rise up before you. Wanderings in South America
- The curious form of the bill, in fact, explains this comparison with birds belonging to so different groups, and the balæniceps would merit the name of boatbill equally well with the bird so called, since its bill recalls the small fishing boats that we observe keel upward high and dry on our seashores. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
- An osteological examination leads Parker to place the balæniceps near the boatbill, and the present classification is based upon that opinion. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
- W.P. P.rker, in his notes upon the osteology of the balæniceps, this bird recalls the boatbill, the heron, and the adjutant. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
- If we listen to Reinhurdt, we must place it, not alongside of the boatbill, but alongside of the African genus Scopus. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
- The nostrils differ in form and position in those two birds, and in the boatbill there exists beneath the lower mandible a dilatable pouch that we do not find in the balæniceps. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
- European spoonbill, and the South American cinereous boatbill. How to See the British Museum in Four Visits
- The boatbill is a nocturnal animal and a shallow-water feeder.
- Verreaux believes that its nearest relative is the adjutant, whose ways it has, and that it represents in this group what the boatbill represents in the heron genus. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891
- The boatbill, says he, is merely a heron provided with a singular bill, which has but little analogy with that of the balæniceps, and not a true resemblance. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891