WILLIAM BOWMAN, LAWRENCE, LONG ISLAND, LAST QUARTER 19TH CENTURY.

This decoy exhibits carved wings and separated primaries, black glass eyes, all of which are characteristic of Bowman's work. For a related example, see the chapter on Massachusetts by Jackson Parker, in Joe Engers, ed. The Great Book of Wildfowl Decoys (San Diego, 1990), pp. 56 and 59.