pinion-joint

Updated: May 27, 2025

June 13. -I shot ten ducks and geese before breakfast, including one of the large black and white geese with the crimson head and neck. On my return to camp I weighed this exactly eleven pounds; this goose has on either pinion-joint a sharp, horny spur, an inch in length.

Sir Samuel White Baker - The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile