"Oesophagus" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... where they have placed sharp-pointed pine sticks, two feet long, against which the deer runs and hurts itself. Blackbirds are decoyed by kernels of corn threaded on a snare of pita fibre hidden under the ground. The bird swallows the kernel, which becomes entangled in its oesophagus and is caught. Small birds are also shot with bow and arrows, or killed ...
— Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) • Carl Lumholtz |
