Vignette from Thomas Bewick's A History of British Birds (Newcastle-on-Tyne, 1805, vol. 2, p. 323), mentioned in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (""The fiend pinning down the thief's pack behind him, I passed over quickly: it was an object of terror" — chapter 1)
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