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The encyclopaedia of sport (1897)

Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 329

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f adecoy and its pipes, as now used, in existence.In this, however, he is mistaken, for earlierengravings of the subject may be found, notonh in the Viiiationes Ferariim Avium, &c., ofAntonio Tempesta, 1605, and in the Aucupa-tionis miiltifariiB Effii^ies by the same artist,1639, but in a still… … Plan of a Decoy Pool. surprised to learn that at the present day thereare about forty still in use in England, and threein Ireland, while at least 140 others are knownto have existed formerly, and to be now dis-mantled or out of repair. The counties in whichthe greatest number of decoys once…

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