A head and a few wing feathers and that's it.

Identification was hard due to being squashed as flat as a pancake, but it has come to my attention that this is actually a short tailed shrew.

A belated Happy New Year to one and all. How auspicious that I encountered such a perfect specimen on the first day of the new year.

The Bishop does not see why a man should not be a gentleman as well as a Christian. (2)

-Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis, "The Unrest-Cure"

This is probably my favorite dead animal photograph thus far.

Once they arrive at the supper-table they seem to enter thoroughly into the spirit of the thing. There's nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster." (2)

-Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis, "The Matchmaker"

She disapproved of early morning tea and auction bridge, of ski-ing and the two-step, of the Russian ballet and the Chelsea Arts Club ball, of the French policy in Morocco and the British policy everywhere. (2)

-Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis, "A Matter of Sentiment"

When one lives among greyhounds one should avoid giving life-like imitations of a rabbit, unless one want's one's head snapped off. (2)

-Saki, The Chronicles of Clovis, "The Peace Offering"