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breed during summer on the margins of rivers and lakes in 

 many counties, these bear but a very small proportion to the 

 numbers which annually visit this country from high northern 

 latitudes during winter. Particular spots, or decoys, in the 

 fen countries, are let to the fowlers at a rent of from five 

 pounds to thirty pounds per annum ; and Pennant instances 

 a season in which thirty-one thousand two hundred Ducks, 

 including Teals and Wigeons, were sold in London only, 

 from ten of these decoys near Wainfleet, in Lincolnshire. 



Two illustrations, reduced in size, from designs which 

 appeared in the Penny Magazine, of February 1835, which 

 exhibit the screens, the net, and the mode of proceeding, 

 will enable the reader, with a short description, to under- 

 stand the process. 



The wild birds are enticed from that portion of the lake 

 near the wide open mouth of the tunnel by means of the dog, 

 the decoy ducks, and the corn used in feeding them in, till 



