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越地深山中有鳥，大如鳩，青色，名曰「冶鳥」，穿大樹，作巢，如五六升器，戶口逕數寸：周飾以土埡，赤白相分，狀如射侯。此鳥，白日見其形，是鳥也；夜聽其鳴，亦鳥也；時有觀樂者，便作人形，長三尺。越人謂此鳥是「越祝」之祖也。
In the deep mountains of the Yue lands there is a bird, large as a dove and azure-blue, named Yeniao; it bores into great trees to make nests shaped like five-or-six-liter vessels, with openings several inches wide, adorned with earthen mounds of alternating red and white like archery targets.
搜神記·第12卷 · 搜神記·第12卷 · Wikisource
越地深山中有鳥，大如鳩，青色，名曰「冶鳥」，穿大樹，作巢，如五六升器，戶口逕數寸：周飾以土埡，赤白相分，狀如射侯。此鳥，白日見其形，是鳥也；夜聽其鳴，亦鳥也；時有觀樂者，便作人形，長三尺。越人謂此鳥是「越祝」之祖也。
In the deep mountains of the Yue lands there is a bird, large as a dove and azure-blue, named Yeniao; it bores into great trees to make nests shaped like five-or-six-liter vessels, with openings several inches wide, adorned with earthen mounds of alternating red and white like archery targets.
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Gan Bao in the Soushen Ji details the Yeniao as a protective, azure shape-shifting bird of southern deep mountains that communes with human woodcutters and commands wild tigers to punish violators.
