diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 9ce2ad4a8..c924bc0c0 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
+
+ AbstractUntypedCollectionDecorator is not used.
+
Added method "ListUtils#longestCommonSubsequence(List, List)".
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections4/collection/AbstractUntypedCollectionDecorator.java b/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections4/collection/AbstractUntypedCollectionDecorator.java
deleted file mode 100644
index 493214294..000000000
--- a/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/collections4/collection/AbstractUntypedCollectionDecorator.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,137 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
- * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
- * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
- * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
- * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
- * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-package org.apache.commons.collections4.collection;
-
-import java.io.Serializable;
-import java.util.Collection;
-
-/**
- * Decorates another Collection
to provide additional behaviour
- * without guaranteeing that the provided Collection
type is the
- * same as that of the decorated Collection
.
- *
- * Each untyped method call made on this Collection
is forwarded to the
- * decorated Collection
. This class is used as a framework on which
- * to build to extensions such as synchronized and unmodifiable behaviour. The
- * main advantage of decoration is that one decorator can wrap any
- * implementation of Collection
, whereas sub-classing requires a
- * new class to be written for each implementation.
- *
- * This implementation does not perform any special processing with
- * {@link #iterator()}. Instead it simply returns the value from the wrapped
- * collection. This may be undesirable, for example if you are trying to write
- * an unmodifiable implementation it might provide a loophole.
- *
- * @param the type of the elements in the decorated collection
- * @param the element type of the Collection implementation
- * @since 4.0
- * @version $Id$
- */
-public abstract class AbstractUntypedCollectionDecorator implements Collection, Serializable {
-
- /** Serialization version */
- private static final long serialVersionUID = -8016691444524268856L;
-
- /** The collection being decorated */
- protected Collection collection;
-
- /**
- * Create a new AbstractUntypedCollectionDecorator.
- */
- public AbstractUntypedCollectionDecorator() {
- super();
- }
-
- /**
- * Constructor that wraps (not copies).
- *
- * @param coll the collection to decorate, must not be null
- * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the collection is null
- */
- protected AbstractUntypedCollectionDecorator(final Collection coll) {
- if (coll == null) {
- throw new IllegalArgumentException("Collection must not be null");
- }
- this.collection = coll;
- }
-
- /**
- * Gets the collection being decorated. All access to the decorated
- * collection goes via this method.
- *
- * @return the decorated collection
- */
- protected Collection decorated() {
- return collection;
- }
-
- public void clear() {
- decorated().clear();
- }
-
- public boolean contains(final Object object) {
- return decorated().contains(object);
- }
-
- public boolean isEmpty() {
- return decorated().isEmpty();
- }
-
- public boolean remove(final Object object) {
- return decorated().remove(object);
- }
-
- public int size() {
- return decorated().size();
- }
-
- public Object[] toArray() {
- return decorated().toArray();
- }
-
- public T[] toArray(final T[] object) {
- return decorated().toArray(object);
- }
-
- public boolean containsAll(final Collection> coll) {
- return decorated().containsAll(coll);
- }
-
- public boolean removeAll(final Collection> coll) {
- return decorated().removeAll(coll);
- }
-
- public boolean retainAll(final Collection> coll) {
- return decorated().retainAll(coll);
- }
-
- @Override
- public boolean equals(final Object object) {
- return object == this || decorated().equals(object);
- }
-
- @Override
- public int hashCode() {
- return decorated().hashCode();
- }
-
- @Override
- public String toString() {
- return decorated().toString();
- }
-
-}