plate i · class .0100
the bandersnatch
the office has no photograph of this animal.
what it does is in the file. what it is, is not.
filed: damage only · ninety years · see the holdings
the bestiary · region e
three exhibits
three exhibits are kept. the office does not explain them.
plate ii · class .0200
the cardinal
it stayed.
observed at the county line in every year of the record · the only red in the file
plate iii · class .0300
the blue canary
“it went down with the men and it came up after. it came up a different color. it sang the same as before. i will not say more than i saw.”
exhibit: testimony only.
name withheld · filed 1941 · the color is not explained
see also: the record, entries 90-042 and 90-043