European water ouzel walking into Lake Nantua, France, and continuing submerged on the bottom of...

European water ouzel walking into Lake Nantua, France, and continuing submerged on the bottom of the lake in a bubble of air. A naturalist with musket observes from a snow-covered hut of pine branches. A man in a boat drives ducks to the shore. After an anecdote sent by Mr. Hebert or Herbert to Comte de Buffon in Histoire Naturelle, 1749-1788. Water ouzel, Cinclus aquaticus. 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.