It was the first thing that sprang to mind.

According to the fifth-century Gazette of Nankang, the muke/shanzao likewise resembled humans in form and speech, but instead of hands and feet they had birdlike talons and nested in high trees. The tree-dwelling shandu and muke both seem to have some affinity with a changeling bird known as ye, which nested in the high trees of the remote mountains of southern China.

Community nurses have been described as the lynchpins of palliative care in the community.

He knows me, as the blind man knows the cuckoo, / By the bad voice.