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dry workmen for setting the reeds and poles 
round the decoy and wiring it, £9 10s. 
“To Sydrach Hilcus, for ye contriving of the 
decoy in St. James’ Park, £30. 
“For oatmeal tares, hempseed, and other 
corn for the birds and fowles from September, 
1660, to June 24, 1670, £246 18s. 
“To John Scott, for carpenters’ work done 
in Wharfing and making bridges in the island 
and borders, and for boards used about the de¬ 
coy and other work, £45 15s. 4d.” 
The account is signed by Charles II. The 
decoy was situated at the west end of the lake, 
and was placed on an island, then known as 
“Duck Island.” This island existed some time 
after the decoy was done away with, for 
Pennant, writing in 1790, states that under the 
new improvement (then lately carried out) the 
duck island had ceased to exist. The lake was 
originally a plain, straight piece of water, and 
was called the “Canal.” Part of St. James’ 
Park was called the “Inward Park” and this 
area was kept quiet and secluded for the sake 
of the birds therein. On this side there were 
at the time, of course, no houses, and a writer 
in 1736 alludes to the lower side oi St. James’ 
Park as “a wilderness and desert,” although the 
other side had been brought to “the height of 
civilization and beauty.” 
It is impossible to realize that a decoy, such 
as one may still find occasionally in remote 
parts of the country, once existed in what is 
now the heart of London, but memories of this 
old contrivance for taking fowl still linger about 
the spot. Thus, Storey’s Gate, at the south¬ 
eastern entrance to the park, takes its name 
from Edward Storey, the King’s birdkeeper, 
whose name in mentioned in the decoy accounts, 
and whose house stood at the entrance in 
question. 
The wildfowl that frequented the decoy were, 
no doubt, both tame and wild birds, the latter 
being attracted thither, as in the case of country 
decoys, by the presence of the former. Even 
to-day purely wild birds of the duck tribe are 
occasionally attracted to the Serpentine and 
other large sheets of water in the metropolis 
by the presence of the tame wildfowl kept there, 
and the latter still retain their wild habit of 
nesting high off the ground in ivy-covered trees 
in order to be out of the reach of rats or other 
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