The dimensions of the three black specimens in the British Museum are as follows: Culmen 26.
Forbes then gives an exhaustive description of the structure, to which I refer my readers, and the following measurements:-- Culmen 32 mm.
Black, glossed with bronzy and purplish; bill and feet black; bill with the culmen much elevated, compressed and cultrate: whole length 13.
He continues, "It differs from Conopoderas syrinx of Caroline Islands by its colouration and the shape of the bill, namely in the new form the culmen is more curved and more stout, and the tail is less roundish and nearly square.
Geographic variation in the average length of the exposed culmen of Sterna sumatrana sumatrana.
So Pope Gregory the Great two centuries earlier: 'Quanto caeteros homines regia dignitas antecedit, tanto caeterarum gentium regna regni Francorum culmen excellit.
Bill large; culmen from base less than tail, rounded not flattened; birds of medium size and various bright colors.
Chin and throat gray with wide streaks of white, or chin nearly all white; larger, culmen from base usually more than 30 mm.
Tarsus longer and stouter, more than middle toe with claw or than culmen from base; rectrices shorter and wider.
Male] with a black =V= on throat; sides of bill more broadly feathered, distance from end of feathers to base of bare space on culmen less than distance from same place to end of bill.
Feathers on sides of bill reaching to nostrils, bare spaces on either side of feathers on culmen pointed at base (posteriorly.
John Lateran, Rome Frontispiece Comacine Panel from the Church of San Clemente, Rome To face page 9 Frescoes in the Subterranean Church of San Clemente, Rome " 10 Church of Sta.
Vincenzo Rossi, Priore of Settignano; Commendatore John Temple Leader of Florence; and to my brother, the Rev.
William Miles Barnes, Rector of Monkton, who has written the "English link" for me.
The length of total culmen of owl IV when 47 days old is slightly greater than the average for three adult male owls from Lawrence, Kansas (40.
Changes in the length of the culmen are indicated in Table 1.
Bill very slender, the base depressed, the sides compressed, the culmenarched from the base.
Bill strong, compressed, the culmen gradually curved from the base, the tip strongly notched: the margins inflexed, the rictus bearded.
