. A history of British birds . old inLondon only, from ten of these decoys near Wainfleet, inLincolnshire. Even in a recent year, as the Editor is in-formed by Mr. Cordeaux, 6,321 Duck and Teal were takenat the Ashby Decoy, and of these 2,300 in thirty-one days. Two illustrations, reduced in size, from designs whichappeared in the Penny Magazine, of February 1835, exhibitthe screens, the net, and the mode of proceeding, and willenable the reader, with a short description, to understandthe process. The wild birds are enticed from that portion of the lakenear the wide open mouth of the tunnel by
. A history of British birds . old inLondon only, from ten of these decoys near Wainfleet, inLincolnshire. Even in a recent year, as the Editor is in-formed by Mr. Cordeaux, 6,321 Duck and Teal were takenat the Ashby Decoy, and of these 2,300 in thirty-one days. Two illustrations, reduced in size, from designs whichappeared in the Penny Magazine, of February 1835, exhibitthe screens, the net, and the mode of proceeding, and willenable the reader, with a short description, to understandthe process. The wild birds are enticed from that portion of the lakenear the wide open mouth of the tunnel by means of thedog, the decoy Ducks, and the corn used in feeding them,till the decoyman has worked them sufficiently up the pipeto enable him to show himself at one of the openingsbetween the wild birds and the entrance from the lake, theoblique position of the reed screens enabling all the birdsin the pipe to see him, while none that are on the lake wild-fowl that are in sight hasten forward, their retreat MALLARD. 361. -^/*7 being cut off by the appearance of the man, whom they darenot pass. The decoyman then moves on to the next open-mg, and the wild birds are thus driven along till they enterthe tunnel net and are all taken; a twist of the net preventsthem getting back. The decoyman then takes the net offfrom the end of the pipe with what fowl he may havecaught, takes them out one at a time, dislocates their necks,hangs the tunnel on to the net again, and all is ready forworking afresh. The Author was indebted to the late Kev. Richard Lub-bock for the following account of the mode of making adecoy, supplied him by a friend in Norfolk. In making a decoy it is necessary to have from an acreand a half to three or four acres of water, in a quiet placesurrounded by plantation ; the water should be in the formof a star, making six equal divisions of the compass; inthese six recesses must be made six pipes: they are con-structed by digging cuts in the land something in the
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