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Yup, the last one's an eagle. And in Christian iconography, the 4 evangelists are each represented with one of these - apparently derived from that very passage in Ezekiel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelist_portrait
i.e. Matthew is the one that was denied the fun of wearing an animal head - and poor Luke was cropped out of the OP image for some reason