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quarters, are by these decoys brought into the very place, where they 
become a sufficient reward to the owner of the Decoy, and a great supply 
to the adjacent markets ” (p. 243). 
At page 9 of Sir Ralph Gallwey’s book we find a facsimile 
engraving borrowed from an old edition of the ‘Fables of Aisop,’ 
by John Ogilby, printed in 1665. It represents a decoy-man in 
the foreground taking fowl out of a tunnel net, with a pool of 
water in the middle distance, the mouths of two pipes showing 
beyond, and ducks on the wing as well as on the water. ‘‘ This,” 
says Sir Ralph Gallwey, ‘‘is the earliest sketch of a decoy and 
its pipes, as now used, in existence.’’ In this we cannot agree 
with him. We have not made any special search for early 
engravings on the subject, but we happen to have met with two 
which are much older than the one which he has reproduced. 
One of these occurs in a collection of prints by Antonio 
Tempesta (obl. fol.), entitled ‘‘ Venationes Ferarum Aviwn Piscium 
Pugne Bestiariorum et mutue Bestiarum: Delineate ab Antonio 
Tempesta: Andreas Vaccarius formis Rome 1605.” Plate 2 of 
the “first book” represents the mouth of a decoy-pipe surrounded 
by trees, with fowl being driven up by two dogs, one swimming, 
the other on the bank, and two boats being poled along by men; 
a few ducks on the wing. An earlier edition of this work is dated 
Rome, 1602, and a later one Amsterdam, 1627; but, not having 
seen the former, we are unaware whether it contains the plate of 
the wildfowl decoy or not. The same plate, however, occurs in 
a collection of Tempesta’s engravings with a different title, 
namely :—‘‘ Aucupationis multifarie Effigies artificiosissime depicte 
et invente ab Antonio Tempestio Florentino. Hxcusum Amstel- 
redami apud Nic. Jo. Visscher A*. 1639.” In this collection the 
plate in question is the eighth of the series. 
Tempesta was a pupil of Stradanus (Jan van Straet), who 
was born in 1586, and died in 1605, according to some authorities, 
or, as others say, in 1618; and it is quite possible he may have 
engraved some of the plates attributed to Stradanus in a work 
with a similar title to his own,* published many years previously, 
* “Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium, pugne bestiariorum et 
mutue bestiarum depict a Joanne Stradano. Edit a Philippo Galleo, car- 
mine illustrate a C. Kiliano Duffleo, Antwerpie apud Joannem Galleum” 
(obl. fol., n. d.). 
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