| CHAPTER I. Decoymen-Derivation of Word Decoy-Origin and Age of Decoys-Driving Ducks-Works relating to Decoys-The Position of Decoys-The Skeltons-The Law of Decoys-Phraseology of a Decoy-What a Decoy consists of |
| CHAPTER II. The System of Catching the Birds when in the Decoy Pipes-The Methods used to Decoy the Ducks into the Pipes-Dogging-Feeding-The Effect of the Food, and of the Dog, on the Ducks-How the Decoyman drives the Birds up the Pipe, both when Dogging and Feeding |
| CHAPTER III. The Construction of a Decoy-The Pipes-The Hoops-The Netting-The Tunnel-net-The Pond-The Water Supply-The Landings and Banks-Fencing-The Screens-The Tame Decoy Ducks-The Decoy Dog-The Food |
| CHAPTER IV. General Directions in the Management of a Decoy-The Wind-The Time most suitable for Decoying-Ice-breaking-Killing Birds-Criticism of Decoys illustrated in the Book-Description of a Decoy and a Decoy Pipe, with Folding Plans-A List of Decoys, Past and Present, in the British Islands |
| CHAPTER V. A History of Decoys, Past and Present :-Berkshire-Buckinghamshire-Cambridgeshire-Cornwall-Derbyshire-Dorsetshire |
| CHAPTER VI. A History of Decoys, Past and Present (continued) -Essex. . . . . |
| CHAPTER VII. A History of Decoys, Past and Present (continued) :-Glamorganshire-Gloucestershire-Hampshire-Herefordshire - Huntingdonshire - Hertfordshire - Kent- Lancaster |
| CHAPTER VIII. A History of Decoys, Past and Present (continued) :-Lincolnshire |
| CHAPTER IX. A History of Decoys, Past and Present (continued) :-Middlesex-Monmouthshire-Montgomeryshire |
| CHAPTER X. A History of Decoys, Past and Present (continued) -Norfolk |
| CHAPTER XI. A History of Decoys, Past and Present (continued) :-Northamptonshire-Nottinghamshire-Oxfordshire- Pembrokeshire-Shropshire |
| CHAPTER XII. A History of Decoys, Past and Present (continued) :-Somerset--Staffordshire |
| CHAPTER XIII. A History of Decoys, Past and Present (continued) :-Suffolk |
| CHAPTER XIV. A History of Decoys, Past and Present (continued) :-Surrey-Sussex-Warwickshire-Westmoreland-Wiltshire |
| CHAPTER XV. A History of Decoys, Past and Present (continued) :-Yorkshire |
| CHAPTER XVI. A History of Decoys, Past and Present (continued) :-Scotland |
| CHAPTER XVII. A History of Decoys, Past and Present (concluded) :-Ireland |
| CHAPTER XVIII. Decoys and Decoying in Holland |