Maned or Barbary sheep, Ammotragus lervia 143, and chital or cheetal deer, Axis axis 144. Morvant sheep and Axis deer. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Jacques de Seve from James Smith Barr’s edition of Comte Buffon’s Natural History, A Theory of the Earth, General History of Man, Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, T. Gillet, H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row, London, 1807.

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