white-shouldered

• “The latter include the critically endangered white-eyed river-martin (Pseudochelidon sirintarae), the globally threatened Bengal florican (Eupodotis bengalensis), and the endangered greater adjutant (Leptoptilos dubius) and white-shouldered ibis (Pseudibis davisoni).”

  Central Indochina dry forests

• “Although unsuitable for agriculture, areas that have been degraded to reed beds nonetheless are still important sites for waterfowl, providing feeding grounds for the eastern sarus crane (Grus antigone), white-shouldered ibis (P. davisoni), and near-endemic giant ibis (Pseudibis gigantea) (Table 2).”

  Tonle Sap freshwater swamp forests

• “A flock of between 20 and 30 white-shouldered ibis, a critically endangered species with only 250 existing in the wild, was found in a protected wetland in Stung Treng province, said ecological adviser Kong Kimsreng of the Mekong”

  The Speculist: April 2006 Archives

• “PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A flock of one of the world's most endangered birds the white-shouldered ibis has been discovered in a remote province in northeast Cambodia, a conservationist said Monday.”

  The Speculist: April 2006 Archives

• “Unless you've got some kind of personal problem with the white-shouldered ibis, this one pretty much speaks for itself.”

  The Speculist: April 2006 Archives

• “Rather a ponderous, white-shouldered weight, pressing terribly on the earth, and murmuring like two watchful lions.”

  The Plumed Serpent

• “Monkish herbs and sweet-smelling old-world flowers grew modestly in this domain once sacred to the chatelaine of Hatton; and Paul kept ghostly tryst with a white-shouldered lady whose hair was dressed high upon her head, and powdered withal, and to whose bewitching red lips the amorous glance was drawn by a patch cunningly placed beside a dimple.”

  The Orchard of Tears

• “America, and in a famous restaurant, where I was dining, saw white-shirted men and white-shouldered women sipping glasses abrim with the sparkling wine of Rheims, the picture of those blood-stained cobbles in that French city flashed before me, and I experienced a momentary sensation of disgust, for it seemed to me that in the amber depths I caught a stain of crimson.”

  Italy at War and the Allies in the West

• “The white-shouldered lark-bunting, in its livery of black, has rich, full notes, and as it sings on the wing it reminds one of the bobolink; and the sweet-voiced lark-finch also utters its song in the air.”

  The Home Range

• “Surely Fionguala, the white-shouldered, would hear, and awaken from her sleep of centuries, and come to the latticed casement and look down!”

  David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales

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