But the maroon oriole lives "on the edge," being found only on Hainan Island, in Yunnan Province and on Taiwan. In olden times, the only educated folk likely to see one would be hapless officials banished into exile at the fringes of the empire.
朱鸝卻是「邊緣鳥」，只落腳海南島、雲南與台灣，過去恐怕只有遭流放的倒楣官員有緣一睹。