BOOKS ON WILD-FOWL 



BY 



SIR RALPH PAYNE-GALLWEY, BART. 



Crown $to, cloth, with Coloured Plates, Plans, and Woodcuts, 1 5s. 



THE BOOK OF DUCK DECOYS: 



Their Construction, Management, and History. 



"This book possesses an antiquarian interest which should ensure its admission 

 into the country-house library. . . . Will be useful to the naturalist, the antiquary, 

 and the sportsman. " Athenaum. 



"Contains excellent plans of different decoys, and also diagrams of almost every- 

 thing connected with them ; armed with this book any one might easily make a decoy 

 and work it too. The book is very complete, and it must have cost its author a vast 

 amount of time and trouble. In this treatise he has had one great advantage over 

 most other authors in having, so far as we know, written the only book on his sub- 

 ject." Saturday Review. 



1 ' To sportsmen and naturalists of course his book of decoys will be especially 

 attractive, but there is also a good deal in it which cannot fail to interest the archae- 

 ologist as well as the county historian. His descriptions of the construction and 

 management of decoys are so clear that any one residing in a district resorted to by 

 wild-fowl could not fail, if so disposed, to turn the information here supplied to him 

 to good account." Field. 



8vo, 504 pages, with many Illustrations of Fowling Experiences, Birds, 

 Boats, Guns, and Implements, 1 Is. 



THE FOWLER IN IRELAND; 



OR, 



Notes on the Haunts and Habits of Wild Fowl and Sea Fowl, 



INCLUDING 



INSTRUCTIONS IN THE ART OF SHOOTING AND CAPTURING THEM. 



"He describes wild scenery and exciting scenes with a light and lively pen, nor 

 does he confine himself to the chase of the wildfowl in the bays and estuaries, but 

 treats of many branches of rough inland sport, from shooting woodcock and snipe to 

 catching wild ducks in decoys. The illustrations of episodes of sport are admirably 

 spirited and suggestive." Times. 



"In this delightful volume the arts of shooting and netting fowl are fully described 

 with the help of plans and drawings. The illustrations are, of their kind, as near 

 perfection as they can well be, those of the various species being equally good with 

 the larger pictures of shooting and trapping exploits. " Morning Post. 



"It might justly be styled ' The Complete Wildfowler ;' for although the scenes 

 of the Author's fowling exploits lie chiefly in Ireland, the very full instructions which 

 he gives on every point connected with the sport will make it THE book of reference 

 for all who wish to be successful takers of wildfowl." Baily^s Sporting Magazine. 



GURNEY AND JACKSON, i, PATERNOSTER ROW. 



(SUCCESSORS TO MR. VAN VOORST.) 



