rara avis

The Goldfinch proves Tartt to be a rara avis; her own species, willingly chained to her demanding muse.

He is that rara avis, the politician who writes his own books.

A railway general manager in Ireland was in those days, strange to say, something of a rara avis.

The words "very scanty" are used most advisedly, for in very truth the American historian is a rara avis.

He has talent and is a true littrateur,—a rara avis, to whom we must give a cage larger than Havre.

When we come to so-called civil matters, the lady who does not know and exercise her legal privileges is indeed a rara avis.

Now this Mrs. Fitzsnob is not a rara avis, but is frequently met with.