King vulture, Sarcoramphus papa, with bones of its carrion prey. Der Geyerkonig, le roi de vautours, king of the vultures, Vultur monachus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by George Edwards from Friedrich Heinrich Wilhelm Martini’s edition of Comte de Buffon’s Naturgeschichte der Vogel, Natural History of Birds, Ben Joachim Pauli, Berlin, 1772.

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