From The Farm, Garden, Stable And Aviary, edited by I.E.B.C., published by Horace Cox, Strand, W.C., 1869:
Scarecrows
No.1. The wild rabbit skin, stuffed, is a good one.
No.2. Take a wisp of hay about the size of your wrist, covered with calico, leaving two very small bits of calico to hang down on either side as wings, and then tie on a cock pheasant’s tail. This scarecrow must then be suspended from a cross-line, so that the scarecrow hangs horizontally. The most gentle air will move it to and fro, and no birds will come near it.
No.3. Dress a stick with coat and hat, which nail securely to the inside of a barrrel, the hat reaching just on a level with the barrel’s edge; place it near the hedgerows, and remove every day.