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  • Top, two vultures; bottom, a vulture holding a snake in its claws. Coloured etching by J. Pass, 1828.
  • Zoological Society of London: two condor minor, or ash-coloured vultures. Coloured etching.
  • A dead lion being set-upon by three vultures. Wood engraving by J. Greenaway after H. Hardy, 1875.
  • Bombay (Mumbai): a Parsee (Parsi) "Tower of silence" where the bodies of the dead are exposed to vultures. Photograph.
  • Three types of hyena and many vultures surrounding a kill on the African plains. Coloured lithograph by W C Harris.
  • The naked body of a woman is strapped to a tree surrounded by vultures waiting for her impending death. Wood engraving.
  • Above, a temple with a furnace; below, emaciated bodies lying at the top of two towers with vultures feeding on the carrion. Engraving.
  • A title-vignette consisiting of various animals, including monkeys, vultures, a lion and an otter forming an ornamental flourished arch over a stream. Wood engraving (?).
  • A Parsee or Zoroastrian funeral: the body is viewed by a dog, before being exposed on a tower to be eaten by vultures. Engraving after B. Picart, 1727.
  • The devil's own : scenes from the farce of life, or facts are stubborn thing, exposing a few only of the secret doings of those cursed human vultures called lawyers.
  • A vulture. Engraving.
  • Left, a Bearded Vulture, middle, an Osprey, right, a Griffon Vulture. Coloured chalk lithograph.
  • An Indian vulture. Engraving.
  • A black vulture (Vultur monachus). Chromolithograph by W. Greve after A. Thorburn, ca. 1885.
  • A vulture. Woodcut after C. Gessner.
  • A vulture flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A vulture flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A vulture flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • A vulture flying. Collotype after Eadweard Muybridge, 1887.
  • Zoological Society of London: a Griffin vulture. Etching.
  • An Angolan vulture (Gyphierax angolensis). Colour lithograph, ca. 1875.
  • A bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus). Chromolithograph by W. Greve after A. Thorburn, ca. 1885.
  • Tityos bound to a rock, his liver eaten by a vulture. Engraving after Michelangelo.
  • Ravana slaughtering Jatayu the vulture, while an abducted Sita looks away in horror. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • A mountain landscape with a vulture hovering over its prey, a chamois buck. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
  • Birds of prey gathered by a lakeside: falcon, heron, monkey, vulture, sea gull and eagle. Etching by J. Griffier after F. Barlow.
  • A title page illustrated with two eagles and a vulture holding a sheep's skin between them. Engraving, ca. 1690, after F. Barlow.
  • Heads of five birds, including a grey vulture, white-headed osprey, falcon, black woodpecker and a cuckoo. Chromolithograph by H.J. Ruprecht, 1877.
  • Above, two humming birds, two molluscs, a mocking thrush, a hoopoe, and a racoon; below, a bat, a wasp, two mongooses, a vulture, a fish and a polar bear. Engraving.
  • Tibet: a dead body being broken up with a hammer and knife for throwing to the birds. Photograph, 19--.