LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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I. Old George Skelton 



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Driving Wildfowl ........ 



Old Engraving of a Decoy ( 1 6O5) .... 



The Man who kills the Ducks outside the Decoys 

 View of a Decoy Pipe as seen from the Head Show Place 

 Decoyman taking Birds out of Tunnel-net . 

 Decoy man enticing Wildfowl up the Decoy Pipe by the use of a Dog . 

 Entrance to a Decoy Pipe, with Dog at Work, and Wildfowl following 

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Decoyman driving Wildfowl up the Pipe 

 How to Cut the Ditch of a Decoy Pipe 

 Entrance to a Decoy Pipe . 

 Tunnel-net ..... 



Construction of Screens 



Plan of a Three-pipe Decoy 



Plan of a Decoy Pipe . 



Plan of a Five-pipe Decoy . 



Plan of a Cage Decoy 



Plan of a Cage Decoy 



Morden Decoy, Dorsetshire. 



Berkeley Decoys, Gloucestershire 



Ashby Decoy, Lincolnshire . 



Friskney Decoy, Lincolnshire 



Didlington Decoy, Norfolk . 



Sharpham and Sedgemoor Decoys, Somerset 



Lakenheath Decoy, Suff(jlk . 



Combe Abbey Decoy, Warwickshire 



Hornby Decoy, Yorkshire . 



Escrick Decoy, Yorkshire . 



Meau,x Decoy, Yorkshire 



Watton Decoy, Yorkshire 



Trap at End of Dutch Decoy Pipe 



Dutch Nesting Basket . 



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