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near Tollesbury, and within sixty yards of the sea-wall. It lies
between Skinner's Wick Decoy (No. 18) and Bohun's Hall Decoy
(No. 19). It had eight pipes, which were clearly discernible in
1936. It was estimated that the area of this pond was slightly
larger than that of Skinner's Wick. Nothing is known of the
history of this decoy, which was discovered by Dr. J. W. Camp-
bell and Mr. A. R. Thompson on March 24th, 1935, and described
by the former, with a photograph, in The Essex Naturalist,
vol. xxv, pp. 107-9, plate vi. It was still known as the "Decoy."
D19 on the map in A History of the Birds of Essex covers the area
occupied by this pond and should have been placed more to the
east.
37. Rolls Farm Decoy (No. 2) is situated in the fresh
marsh within a quarter of a mile off No. 36, from which it is
separated by a salt-water creek, and is within fifty yards of the
sea-wall. It is not quite half a mile south-west of Decoy Farm
and about half a mile west of Bohun's Hall Decoy, which has
been placed too far to the west on the map in "A History of the
Birds of Essex. The decoy has eight pipes, similar in construc-
tion to those of No. 36, but not so well marked. The main pond
is slightly larger than Skinner's Wick, but not so large as Bohun's
Hall. The story of the discovery of this pool is the same as
for No. 36. Its history is unknown.
It is probable that there were even more decoys in Essex than
are described in the preceding list. Miller Christy, writing in
the Victoria History of the County of Essex in 1903, states that
there was probably one near Fobbing and one, higher up the
Thames, was marked on an old map of Essex at one time in the
possession of the late Mr. F. J. Stubbs. Christy states in his
The Birds of Essex that Mr. E. A. Fitch had been informed of the
former existence of decoys on Osey Island and at Mundon, but
that he could find no trace of them, and that "Old Pool" and
the "New Pool" are marked on the Ordnance Maps in a de-
tached portion of Great Stambridge parish, due S.S.E. from
Burnham. Christy points out that of the decoys included in his
list some, so far as can be decided, are marked on the following
old county maps. The numbers used here are not those of
Christy, but the numbers used in the preceding list.
Maps in Morant's Essex (1768) : 7, 9, Brick House, Mundon,
13, 20, 33.
Chapman and Andre's (1777) : 3 (marked but not named), 6,
8, 13, 19 (2), 22, 27, 28, 30.
Emanuel Bowen's (about 1778) : 7, Brick House, Mundon,
13, 33.
John Cary's (1801) : 13, 22, 28.