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String-operated

Line drawing of a wooden decoy bird standing on a peg, with hinged wings connected by strings and a rubber spring to a control mechanism near its body, allowing a gunner to move the wings by pulling a cord.

IMPROVEMENT IN DECOY-BIRDS.Nathaniel Wales · February 11, 1868

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