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There were, I am told, three pipes which are now just visible, but 
very much grown up ; and the “ car,” now grown to fair-sized 
trees, is very much improved by drainage. The land is the 
property of Lord Calthorpe. 
Still farther inland, on the margin of Eamcorth Broad, is a 
decoy, which possesses peculiar interest, from being the source from 
which Mr. Lubbock derived the practical acquaintance with 
decoying, which enabled him to write the interesting chapter on 
this subject to be found in his ‘Fauna of Norfolk,’ and which 
was the first really reliable account of the working of a decoy, 
which had up to that time been published. The Banworth Decoy 
is now dismantled, and the pipes rapidly growing up ; it is not, 
however, more than about nine years since it was last used by its 
late proprietor, Mr. John Kerrison ; and some memoranda, very 
imperfect it is true, of the fowl killed between the years 18G2 and 
I860, were kindly lent by the Misses Kerrison to Mr. Stevenson. 
The season of 1864-5 is the only one of which a complete record 
is given, and from this it appears that the decoy was worked three 
days in October, and then at intervals of a day or two up to the 
7th of April ; the result of the season being : 877 ducks, 70 teal, 
8 wigeon, 3 shovellers, 1 pintail, 1 tufted duck, and 1 goosander ; 
a total of 961 fowl. The 8 wigeon were taken : 4 in December 
and 4 in January ; 1 of the shovellers in January and 2 in April ; 
the pintail and tufted duck in January; and the goosander in 
March. 372 fowl were taken in February, which is nearly double 
the number taken in January, the next best month. The decoy- 
man formerly in Mr. Iverrison’s service, and now keeper on the 
Broad, told me that the take used to be about 1000 each season ; 
but that when the Anacharis alsinastrum abounded so at Hoveton, 
it greatly interfered with his takes, as the ducks were so fond of 
the weed, that nothing ho could offer them would tempt them to 
enter the pipes. The Broad contains about sixty acres of water, 
and there were ten pipes. 
Still higher up the Biver Bure, is a small broad in the parish of 
W oodbastwiclc, known as the “Decoy Broad,” Avhich derived its 
name from the use to which its waters were put ; the remains of 
the pipes are still plainly visible, but I am informed by an old 
resident, that it has not been used as a decoy in his experience, 
which dates back seventy years. 
