British Duck Decoys of to-Day, 1918 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from British Duck Decoys of to-Day, 1918

The name decoy is said to be of Dutch extraction, and is an abbreviation of the word Endekooy, i.e., the duck cage. We see in some old books it is called duck coy or duck cage, and has been contracted into decoy, or it may be derived from de coy, the cage; it is also written duck-koy. Decoys are said to have been first made in England by Sir William Woodhouse in the reign of James I.

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