10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CAPE PIGEON»
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The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and ...
t=843 seconds or 14 minutes; so that the Cape-pigeon could sail half as long as
the Albatros, the resistance of the air being supposed to be proportionately the
same in both cases. This is more than we should expect, considering the great ...
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The Philosophical Magazine
give velocities of 52 and 29 feet per second respectively. Therefore 0'88 X 23 t:
52 X 29 X 32 X 0'000002 X 0'25I t=843 seconds or 14 minutes; so that the Cape-
pigeon could sail half as long as the Albatros, the resistance of the air being ...
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The Antarctic Dictionary: A Complete Guide to Antarctic English
The Cape Pigeon (Daption capensis) .. in spite of the misleading name given to it
by sailors, is also a petrel. 1955 Dalziel, Ken Penguin road Angus and Robertson
, Sydney: 44. The most common bird we saw was the cape pigeon. It has black ...
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Two Men in the Antarctic
CAPE PIGEON (Daption capense) Cape Pigeons were very common in the
whaling harbour at Deception Island. Being scavengers, they were attracted by
the whale meat and blubber. On 30 December 1920 we found nests with eggs on
the ...
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A general history of birds
Cape Pigeon, Gen. Syn. iv. 666. THIS is a very small and beautiful Species,
scarcely bigger than a Lark, but in length nine inches and a half. Bill red ;
forehead and chin nearly white ; throat, and fore part of the neck, to the breast,
black ; head, ...
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Proterozoic East Gondwana: Supercontinent Assembly and Breakup
191 1-1914 Australasian Antarctic Expedition), and the Way Archipelago
between Cape Gray and Cape Pigeon Rocks. Rock types are dominated by
amphi- bolite to granulite facies paragneiss and orthogneiss. with a distinctive
greenschist ...
Masaru Yoshida, Brian F. Windley, Somnath Dasgupta, 2003
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The Making of a Sailor, Or, Sea Life Aboard a Yankee ...
The Cape pigeon or Cape petrel is another bird in this southern sea that is very
beautiful. It gets its name from a resemblance to the tame pigeon. It is from ten to
fifteen inches long, with black head, white back spotted with black and under part
...
Frederick Pease Harlow, 1928
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Extracts from the Letters of James Backhouse: Whilst Engaged ...
... at a small elevation above the water, and often very close to the vessel, the
wandering albatross, the mollymawk albatross, the black albatross, called also
the Cape hen and the nelly, the Cape pigeon, the sooty petrel, and the white-
bellied ...
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Supplementary Information relative to New Zealand; ...
Our most constant companion was the Cape pigeon, a very neat kind of pctrel (
Procellaria capensis.) This bird is white and black spotted abOVe, white below,
with a. black head, and of the size of a large pigeon. Occasionally we noticed
some ...
NEW ZEALAND COMPANY., 1840
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Information relative to New Zealand, compiled for the use of ...
Our most constant companion was the Cape pigeon, a very neat kind of petrel (
Procellaria capensis.) This bird is white and black spotted above, white below,
with a black head, and of the size of a large pigeon. Occasionally we noticed
some ...
NEW ZEALAND COMPANY., 1812
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CAPE PIGEON»
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Life on 'Earth's Freezer'
Bird life of Antarctica consists of several large flight birds including Wandering albatross, Snow petrel, Antarctic tern, Cape pigeon and many ... «nation.lk - The Nation Newspaper, Jun 15»
Bird beauty over the horizon
Seldom flapping their wings, the cape pigeon (daption capense) uses the thin layer of air just above the water to bounce across the waves. «Stuff.co.nz, Jan 12»
