The vulture is commonly represented flying in the air, in attendance upon the march and the battle--sometimes devouring, as he flies, the entrails of one of Assyria's enemies.
Occasionally he appears upon the battle-field, perched upon the bodies of the slain, and pecking at their eyes or their vitals.

[PLATE XXVIII., Fig.

4.] The ostrich, which we know from Xenophon to have been a former inhabitant of the country on the left bank of the Euphrates, but which has now retreated into the wilds of Arabia, occurs frequently upon cylinders, dresses, and utensils; sometimes stalking along apparently unconcerned; sometimes hastening at full speed, as if pursued by the hunter, and, agreeably to the description of Xenophon, using its wing for a sail.

[PLATE XXIX., Figs.

1, 2.] The partridge is still more common than either of these.