a fish-bellied rail

Her sharp immovable eyes with irregular pupils, her projecting chin, her broad nose, and her yellow complexion gave Bertha's face a strange, Oriental, almost witchlike appearance; and this was not to be wondered at, because she was considered the first wise woman for a good many miles around.

In inspecting numerous shrike impalings I find that where abundant impaling situations, such as barbed-wire fences, are at hand, the unfinished meals of shrikes are distributed along such fences at considerable intervals.

By 7:00 P.M. we had traveled 210 kilometers and reached this place, called Nei-chiang, a small inland city boasting electric lights but without other modern conveniences.… We returned to Nei-chiang in the early afternoon. As it was too late to start out for Chungking, we just sat around here for the rest of the day.