Cougar 1, coot 2, horrid crab 3, Indian land crab 4, Indian sea crab 5, long-clawed crab 6, slender-legged crab 7, spider crab 8, crake 9. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Moses Harris from William Frederic Martyn’s A New Dictionary of Natural History, Harrison, London, 1785. Pseudonym of William Fordyce Mavor, Scottish priest, teacher and writer, 1758-1837.

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