"The zadit is a small, tawny-feathered, sharp-billed bird. It feeds
on insects. When sand flies and other insects, emergent after rains,
infest kaiila, they frequently alight on the animals, and remain on them
for some hours, hunting insects. This relieves the kaiila of the
insects but leaves it with numerous small wounds, which are unpleasant
and irritating, where the bird has dug insects out of its hide. These
tiny wounds, if they become infected, turn into sores; these sores are
treated by the drovers with poultices of kaiila dung."
"Tribesmen of Gor" page 152