hippalectryon

I've had this "brilliant" idea for a blog, and this guy is for the first official entry. It's gonna be an online bestiary, so I will have somewhere to yap about nonexistent creatures to my heart's content and pretend I did all that random research for a reason.
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This happens to be a hippalectryon, which is a creature found mainly in Greek black-figure pottery. It's a horse crossed with a rooster, a "cock-horse," if you want, because I know we're all mature. (It translates the other way, but...no, not going there.) It's supposed to look awkward, it's not supposed to be elegant like Pegasus. It also has no myth, so it's not very common. Therefore it's a perfect candidate for the Bestiary Project.

I won't bombard people with all the monsters, but I like this one a lot right now.