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INDEX. 



Plan of Cage Decoy, facing 7 1 



72 



Plans of Decoys, Criticism of, 55 



Plumb, James, 132 



Pochards, 77 



Pochard Ponds, 84 



Pond Hall Decoy, 92 



Ponsonby, Mr. C. B., 195 



Poole Harbour Estuary, 74 



Position of Decoys of the British Islands, 10 



Posts of the Screens, 45 



Powis, Earl of, 129 



Prescott, Sir C, 86 



Price paid for Wildfowl in 1716, 82 



Price, Sir Rose, 70 



Privet, on Bank Tops, 42, 43 



Protection of Wildfowl, 6 



Pug, as Decoy, 49 



Purdis Hall Decoy, 164 



Pyrford Decoy, 170 



R. 



Rabbits a great Nuisance, 43 

 Ramsey Abbey, 108 



Island Decoy, 79 



Mere, 69, 96 



Ranworth Broad, 138 



Decoy, 13S 



Rathescar Decoy, 193 



Ratten Decoy, 173 



Ray, 4 



Rear of a Screen, 46 



" Redfurns," The, 107 



Redmore Fen, 141 



Reed Edge around the Water of a Decoy, 42 



Reeds, The, 46 



Rennie, 68 



Ricketts, C. Aubrey, 61 



Ridge-trees, 37 



Ridsdale, Rev. Mr., 170 



Rimes, James, 126 



Ripon, Marquis of, 121 



River Nen, 65 



Rother, River, 174 



Rothschild, Baron Ferdinand de, 62 



Roydon Hall Decoy, 92 



Russell, Colonel, 84 



Salmon, Mr. Joseph, 88 



Salter, Dr. J. H., 86 



Saurin, Colonel, 147 



Sawdust strewn along Path, 45 



Scorborough Decoy, 184 



Scotland, 188 



Scott, Lord Henry, 95 



John, 127 



Screens, The, 44 



Construction of, 46 



Screen-posts, 44 

 Sedge Fen, 65, 167 

 Sempringham Fen, 103 

 Setting up the Hoops, 37 

 Severn, River, 93 

 Shannon, River, 194 

 Shapwick Decoy, 154 

 Shardeloes, Lake at, 60 

 Sharpe (Gamekeeper), 149 

 Sharpham Park Decoy, 153 



and Sedgemoor Decoys, Somerset, facing 



93 

 Sheep depastured in Wildmore Fen, 105 

 Shobdon Court Decoy, 95 

 Shooting round a Decoy, 133 

 Shores of Decoy, 41 

 Shropshire, Decoys in, 150 

 Simpson, Mr. George, 88 

 Sittingbourne Decoy, 98 

 " Six Hundred Decoy," The, 1 14 

 Skellingthorpe Decoy, 124 

 Skelton, George, 11, 135 



Death of, 13 



Henry, 13 



John, 122 



Old George, Portrait of — Frontispiece 



, 179 



• Richard, 12 



T. Gilbert, 12, 149, 195 



William, ;2, 174, 195 



Skeltons, The family of, 12 



Skinner's Wick, or Whitehouse Decoy, 85 



Sligo, County of, 195 



Smith, Mr. James, 89 



Snipe, Large numbers of, 171 



Solley's Decoy, 85 



Somersetshire, Decoys in, 152 



Souley Pond, 95 



South Acre Decoy, 14, 132 



• Carlton Decoy, 124 



Hall Decoy, 79 



