000 
the centre of the park and close to the house; a few wigeon are 
taken annually, but the principal catch is duck and teal. 
In the foregoing brief notices of the decoys, ancient and modern, 
of this county, I have confined myself almost entirely to the 
information I have been able to collect, using, in many cases, 
tho actual words of my informants ; which, however, I have con- 
densed and arranged as much as possible. There is much yet to 
learn before reliable deductions can be drawn, the statistics are 
still too imperfect; but without a commencement nothing can be 
done, and, I trust, the work of analysing what I have collected, 
will fall to more competent hands than mine. Whilst, thanking 
those who have so kindly assisted me, I should like to say, that 
any further information, however trilling in appearance, will be 
received with gratitude. 
nr. 
SOME RECENT NOTES ON THE AVI-FAUNA 
OF LINCOLNSHIRE. 
By John Cordeaux. 
Read ijth December, 1878. 
Probably without exception there is no county in Great Britain 
whoso avi-fauna has, from one cause or the other, undergone so 
complete a change in less than seventy years than Lincoln- 
shire. From a land of wood and heath, mere and marsh, it has 
passed, by a transformation which may almost be styled magical, 
into the most flourishing agricultural district in England. Its 
fens and marshes have given place to dry and sound pasture, its 
great heaths and barren wolds to fruitful turnips and waving corn ; 
the large woodlands, once the haunt of kite and buzzard, under 
the exigencies of the time, have been greatly restricted or alto- 
gether removed. Could those who knew the county a century 
ago see it in its present altered state, they would certainly fail to 
