lammergeyer

• “Between five and six hundred species are represented, varying from the great vulture known as the lammergeyer, which is 9 1/2 feet across the outstretched wing, down to the tiny flower-pecker, barely exceeding 3 inches from the end of its beak to the tip of its tail.”

  The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty

• “Pyrenees, or fill the sheltered valleys with their vocal music; while, soaring above the mountain summits, may be seen the great vulture-eagle, or "lammergeyer," watching with greedy eye the feeble lambkin, or the new-born kid of the ibex and izzard.”

  Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt

• “I see that a lion is more like a lamb than it is like a lammergeyer (bird).”

  The Loves of Plants and Animals: Romantic Science and the Pleasures of Nature

• “At that moment he saw the lammergeyer: it had already begun its stoop at the calf, dropping big and dark brown from the sky, wings cocked back and its talons reaching for the strike.”

  When the Lion Feeds

• “The lammergeyer is quite content to make a meal of offal, old bones, or other refuse.”

  Birds of the Indian Hills

• “The lammergeyer or bearded vulture (_Gypætus barbatus_) is the king of the vultures.”

  Birds of the Indian Hills

• “The Hebrew word occurs, as the name of an unclean bird, in (Leviticus 11: 13) and Deuteronomy 14: 12 It is probably the lammergeyer, or bearded vulture as it is sometimes called, one of the largest of the birds of prey.”

  Smith's Bible Dictionary

• “That other fellow is the great European lammergeyer. ”

  A Red Wallflower

• “The nest of a lammergeyer!" exclaimed the izzard-hunter, the moment his eye glanced up to it.”

  Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt

• “I, myself, was made acquainted with it by one of the "feeders" of the superb collection in Regent's Park -- who had observed this propensity for bone-eating in a young African lammergeyer.”

  The Boy Hunters

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