Several pages after passing through what he thought of as ‘common’ ponies and into more fantastical beings, he discovered another familiar creature.  It had the head and foreclaws of a bird, with the main part of its body very cat-like.  He wrote the word down.  That shows that this isn’t a book on their mythology, since I met one of those things.  Such a hybrid couldn’t exist on earth—not naturally, and probably not even as a result of aggressive genetic tinkering.  But the winged ponies already have fur and feathers; is this any odder?