vulture

• The owl is the wiseacre of Nature, the vulture is a vile harpy, and the eagle is the embodiment of everything great and mighty, and glorious and free, and swooping and catoptrical. —  The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
• There are very few birds that I should not like to keep as pets if I had the room, but the vulture is the first of them. —  The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly
• Still, I gave the baldheaded man, with nose like a vulture--collecting nimbly the dollars of the soldiers--a very decided expression of my opinion. —  Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
• The hyena and the vulture are the scavengers of the tropical regions. —  The Mission; or Scenes in Africa
• But it is certain that not only do numbers of them roost together at night, but they even associate with the black vultures at such times In most countries the vulture is a privileged bird. —  The Boy Hunters

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