Egyptian vulture, Neophron percnopterus. Endangered. Norwegischer geyer, le petit vautour, whitish vulture, Vultur leucocephalus, Vultur albicans. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Johanna Dorothea Philippin after an illustration by François-Nicolas Martinet 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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