This creature appears to be a variety of the griffin family. Authorities
blazon it as having its body and four legs like those of a lion; the head
and neck and wings like an eagle, and the short tail of a camel, sometimes
borne sans wings.
Such a monster with wings endorsed or, was the crest of the _Barber
Surgeons of London_.
_Two opinici vert, purfled or, beaked sable, wings gules_, support the
insignia of the _Plasterers' Company_.
[Illustration: Egyptian Sphynx.]