WORKS RELATING TO DECOYS. 9 



It is an interesting fact that the very curious engraving of a Decoy 

 here given should coincide in date (1665) with the one alluded to by 

 Evelyn (page 3). This is the earliest sketcli of a Deco) and its pipes as 

 noio used in existence. It is from "The Fables of ^Tlsop, Paraphrased in 

 Verse, adorned with Sculpture and illustrated with Annotations. By John 



OLD ENCRAVING OF A DECOY (1665). 



Ogilby, Esq., Master of His Majesty's Revells in the Kingdom of Ireland. 

 London : Printed by T. Roycroft for the Author, mdclxv." Fable lxxix., 

 "The Husbandman and the Stork," page 200. 



Encyclopfedia of Agriculture,*' 5th edition, 1S44, page 1,092; and one which is partially 

 copied into "A Dictionary of Science and Art," by Brande and Cox (1865;. 



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