Commentary for Chullin 204:14

ומי איכא מידי דבכוליה לית ביה כזית בשר ובחד אבר אית כזית במשהו בשר גידין ועצמות

But is there such a creature, the whole of which does not carry an olive's bulk of flesh and yet in one limb there is as much as an olive's bulk made up of a little flesh and sinews and bones? - R'Sherebia replied: Yes, it is the kallanitha.<span class="x" onmousemove="('comment',' A thin and scraggly bird. According to Levysohn, Zoologie des Talmuds, p. 183, a species of gull, probably the blue-footed gull.');">¹²</span>

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