Description

Story about birds with long tongues, and other strange creatures: http://www.rattysghost.com/deadrat/buriedrat/000407.html

Short explanation: Proceeding along the slow salt river to the east, one comes, at length, upon a region of twisted trees and birds with long tongues. These birds are Lingua horribilis, and one must not linger among them, especially at night. For, should one fall to snoring, mouth open wide, it is not unheard-of for such a bird to land upon one's face and thrust its tongue down one's throat, scooping out great lumps of entrails with its pointed tip.

This area is also populated by the Lesser Short-Necked Spatulate Vulture, which the long-tongued birds devour in their thousands.

NB: Please see the large version--the scan cut out a lot of detail as it is, and making the image less than 640 pixels wide really wrecks it.