Tachyglossus aculeatus – short-beaked echidna, or spiny anteater, wandering along the edge of the Jordan River, Midlands, Tasmania.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Panda's Thumb: Matt Young Archives] Reference

She drew in the aromas, holding a flower with both hands and burrowing her nose deep into the center, like a short-beaked hummingbird.    From Wordnik.com.  [GUARDIAN OF THE VEIL] Reference

Important marine mammals are short-beaked saddleback dolphin (Delphinus delphis) and a subspecies of Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris indicus).    From Wordnik.com.  [Maldives-Lakshadweep-Chagos Archipelago tropical moist forests] Reference

Last June, a "superpod" of more than 400 short-beaked common dolphin was recorded in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference

Sir W. Elliot, however, informs me that he has seen in Madras a short-beaked Runt imported from Cairo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference

I must just say that if sterility be allowed to come into play, if long-beaked be in the least degree sterile with short-beaked, my whole case is altered.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

The Australian Adventure takes you on a journey through the land down under, where you can view dingoes, eastern gray kangaroo, fruit bats and short-beaked echidna.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

It has been asserted, that of the best short-beaked tumbler-pigeons more perish in the egg than are able to get out of it; so that fanciers assist in the act of hatching.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference

It has been asserted that of the best short-beaked tumbler-pigeons a greater number perish in the egg than are able to get out of it; so that fanciers assist in the act of hatching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11] Reference

It has been asserted that of the best short-beaked tumbler pigeons a greater number perish in the egg than are able to get out of it; so that fanciers assist in the act of hatching.    From Wordnik.com.  [The World's Greatest Books — Volume 15 — Science] Reference

It has been asserted, that of the best short-beaked tumbler pigeons a greater number perish in the egg than are able to get out of it; so that fanciers assist in the act of hatching.    From Wordnik.com.  [IV. Natural Selection; or the Survival of the Fittest. Natural Selection: Its Power Compared with Man’s Selection] Reference

Thus, a new genus would have been formed for the reception of the improved English Pouter: a second genus for Carriers and Runts; and this would have been a wide or comprehensive genus, for it would have admitted common Spanish Runts without any wattle, short-beaked Runts like the Tronfo, and the improved.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference

Man keeps the natives of many climates in the same country; he seldom exercises each selected character in some peculiar and fitting manner; he feeds a long and a short-beaked pigeon on the same food; he does not exercise a long-backed or long-legged quadruped in any peculiar manner; he exposes sheep with long and short wool to the same climate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11] Reference

Man keeps the natives of many climates in the same country; he seldom exercises each selected character in some peculiar and fitting manner; he feeds a long-beaked and a short-beaked pigeon on the same food; he does not exercise a long-backed or long-legged quadruped in any peculiar manner; he exposes sheep with long hair and short wool in the same climate.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Series of Lessons in Gnani Yoga] Reference

There are California sea lion, Zalophus californianus especially on I. San Jorge, and five species of dolphin: rough-toothed Steno bredanensis, Risso’s Grampus griseus, bottlenose Tursiops truncatus, long-beaked Delphinus capensis and short-beaked D. delphis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Islands and Protected Areas of the Gulf of California, Mexico] Reference

As I had taken measures from the end of the middle toe to the heel of the tarsus in the rock-pigeon and in the above thirty-six birds, I have made calculations analogous with those above given, and the result is the same, -- namely, that in the short-beaked breeds, with equally few exceptions as in the former case, the middle toe conjointly with the tarsus has decreased in length; whereas in the long-beaked breeds it has increased in length, though not quite so uniformly as in the former case, for the leg in some varieties of the runt varies much in length.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference

To compare small things with great; if the principal living and extinct races of the domestic pigeon were arranged in serial affinity, this arrangement would not closely accord with the order in time of their production, and even less with the order of their disappearance; for the parent rock-pigeon still lives; and many varieties between the rock-pigeon and the carrier have become extinct; and carriers which are extreme in the important character of length of beak originated earlier than short-beaked tumblers, which are at the opposite end of the series in this respect.    From Wordnik.com.  [XI. On the Geological Succession of Organic Beings. On the Affinities of Extinct Species to Each Other, and to Living Forms] Reference

To compare small things with great: if the principal living and extinct races of the domestic pigeon were arranged as well as they could be in serial affinity, this arrangement would not closely accord with the order in time of their production, and still less with the order of their disappearance; for the parent rock-pigeon now lives; and many varieties between the rock-pigeon and the carrier have become extinct; and carriers which are extreme in the important character of length of beak originated earlier than short-beaked tumblers, which are at the opposite end of the series in this same respect.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition)] Reference

Ornithorhynchus anatinus) and Australia's short-beaked echidna (.    From Wordnik.com.  [COSMOS magazine - The science of everything] Reference

1600, two sub-breeds existed; but one of them, the short-beaked, is now extinct in Europe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference

"produced a roll call of troubled species that includes not just the boodie and the woylie, but the elusive wambenger, the chuditch, the short-beaked echidna, and several species of dunnarts, bandicoots, bats, wallabies, and mice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Utne Reader Latest 10 Articles] Reference