Female swan drowning a fox to protect her nest. From an incident observed on a pond in Pensy, Buckinghamshire. Mute swan, Cygnus olor (mislabeled goose on engraving). 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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