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  • Hunting: snares for catching ground-feeding birds, and musical notation of bird-song. Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.
  • Hunting: nets for catching ground birds. Engraving, c.1762.
  • Hunting: nets for catching ground birds, and hunting at night with torches. Engraving, c.1762, by B.-L. Prevost.
  • Hunting: nets and snares for catching ground birds. Engraving, c.1762, by B.-L. Prevost.
  • Hunting: nets and hides for catching ground birds. Engraving, c.1762, by B.-L. Prevost.
  • Hunting: nets for catching ground-feeding birds, and a wolf-trap (?) Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.
  • Hunting: a man stalking partridges (?) (top), a trap for catching ground-feeding birds. Engraving, c.1762 by Defehrt after L.J. Goussier.
  • Hunting: two variants of a trap for catching roosting birds. Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • Hunting: nets and snares for catching ground-feeding birds. Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.
  • Hunting: a wolf, with its head caught in a trap (above), and details of the trap (below) Engraving, c.1762, by B.-L. Prevost.
  • Hunting: traps and snares for catching ground-feeding birds. Engraving, c.1762 by B.-L. Prevost.
  • Hunting: a trap for a ploughed field (top), and details of a trap for roosting birds (below) Engraving, c.1762, by Prevost after L.J. Goussier.
  • The "Peruvian harpy": a harpy with two tails, horns, fangs, winged ears and long wavy hair. Etching attributed to L.A. Boutelou, 1784.