1) Egyptian legendary creature 2) Mythological hybrid
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https://www.crosswordclues.com/clue/hieracosphinx
The hieracosphinx is a mythical beast, a gryphon-like chimera found in Egyptian sculpture and European heraldry comprising a lion with the gryphon`s aquiline head replaced by that of a falcon. The name was coined by Herodotus to the falcon-headed sphinxes that he saw in Egypt, the other being the ram-headed sphinx, which Herodotus called Criosphi....
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieracosphinx
One of three varieties of Egyptian sphinx, having the head of a hawk.
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https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/10138
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