Original Text & Translation
山海經·西山經 · Shanhaijing · Classic of the Western Mountains · Wikisource
又西二百八十里，曰章莪之山，無草木，多瑤碧。所為甚怪。……有鳥焉，其狀如鶴，一足，赤文青質而白喙，名曰畢方，其鳴自叫也，見則其邑有譌火。
Two hundred and eighty li further west is Mount Zhang'e. No plants grow there, but it abounds in precious jade. Very strange things happen there. … There is a bird here shaped like a crane, with one leg, red patterns on a blue-green ground and a white beak. It is called the Bifang, and it cries out its own name. Wherever it is seen, the town will have weird fires.
山海經·海外南經 · Shanhaijing · Classic of the Regions Beyond the Southern Sea · Wikisource
畢方鳥在其東，青水西，其為鳥一腳。一曰在二八神東。
The Bifang bird lives to its east, west of the Green River. It is a bird with one foot. Another account says it lives east of the Sixteen Gods.
Variant reading: 「其為鳥人面一腳」 — 'a bird with a human face and one foot'.
Comparing the Books
The mountain chapter gives full colouring and the fire omen; the outer-region chapter only locates it and, in some editions, gives it a human face.
