Corkindrill

At this the bird became so nervous that it made a mess on Merlyn's head — the whole room was quite white with droppings — and flew off to perch on the farthest tip of the corkindrill's tail, out of reach.

Still, he did give her a good price for the creature, selling it to her under the mistaken impression that it was a corkindrill. Well, of course it was not a corkindrill, although a genuine corkindrill (another of Irene's finds) had shared its crate for approximately fifteen years.

Other beasts, too, roamed at their graceful will across the landscape: the ox and the wide-horned aurochs, the slouching camelopard, the corkindrill — each animal as fat as a burgher and similarly complacent.