Tame giant crane stealing a whole boiled fowl from the dining table. A servant tries to stop it with a stick while the mistress of the house enters the dining room in shock. After an anecdote by English naturalist Henry Smeathman in the Banana Islands, Sierra Leone, Africa, 1771-1775. Gigantic crane or wattled crane, Grus carunculata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, phi
Tame giant crane stealing a whole boiled fowl from the dining table. A servant tries to stop it with a stick while the mistress of the house enters the dining room in shock. After an anecdote by English naturalist Henry Smeathman in the Banana Islands, Sierra Leone, Africa, 1771-1775. Gigantic crane or wattled crane, Grus carunculata. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Reverend Thomas Smith’s The Naturalist’s Cabinet, or Interesting Sketches of Animal History, Albion Press, James Cundee, London, 1806. Smith, fl. 1803-1818, was a writer and editor of books on natural history, religion, philosophy, ancient history and astronomy.
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