even with regard to captures made at sea

I prefer to think that birds have a sufficiently developed sense of humour to enjoy the spectacle of a human being hunched beneath a bush kissing the back of their hand.

such persons are now commonly called reasonists and rationalists, to distinguish them from true reasoners or rational inquirers

The apparent disjunct distribution may be an artifact of no collections made in northernmost Gansu and the A-erh-t’ai shan (Mongolian and Chinese Altay).