124 THE IMAGE OF WAE 



was to transfer the head and feet to my rucksack. 

 Before I left the dead beast I ripped up the skin so 

 as to enable the lammergeier to get to work more 

 quickly. Enormous as this bird is, he has little 

 strength in beak or claws ; and even the smaller 

 vultures, though better provided in these respects? 

 will often sit a day or two by a fresh carcase till 

 incipient putrefaction makes their task more easy. 



