Greyhounds chasing a great bustard, Otis tarda, for sport. 18th century English blood sports. Mislabeled buzzard 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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