But Sylvie was silent. You would know it if you saw it, he added. It's a tall, strange bird with soft white feathers and long thin legs. It probably has its nest at the top of a tall tree.
Like my aunt who happened to be walking down the street one day in her Joan Crawford dress, in her funny felt hat with the black feather, cousin Totchy in one hand, baby Frank in the other.
How all these creatures survived those conditions was, Dr Druckenmiller suggests, a consequence of dinosaurs' warmbloodedness and the downy feathers many of them are now known to have sported.
" Headless Hats! " shouted George, as Fred waved a pointed hat decorated with a fluffy pink feather at the watching students. " Two Galleons each, watch Fred, now! "
Well, in the 1990s, around the same time as a certain classic film showed us scaly, non-feathered dinosaurs, the first dinosaur fossils with feather-like structures were discovered.
Whatever it is, Ned Land went on, any animal having four feet without feathers, or two feet with feathers, will be greeted by my very own one-gun salute.