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"dummy" ones on every side except the south, 

 where holes give entrance to the birds. On this 

 side there is also a small dormer in the roof. The 

 interior, lined with oblong nests, is reached from 

 the archway by means of a trap-door in the floor. 



Standing on shaven turf and backed by a 

 wide-spreading cedar, with clumps of rhodo- 

 dendrons and azaleas in full boom, this South 

 Bantaskine dovecote would be hard to match. 

 Andthelast needed touch isgivenby the snowy 

 fantail pigeons that for ever flutter round the 

 roof and windows, light the shadowy archway 

 with their graceful forms, or make a dazzling 

 contrast with the emerald of the sunny lawn. 



Two Dumbartonshire dovecotes deserve in- 

 spection. One occupies the middle of a field 

 at Dougalston, Milngavie. The shape is sexa- 

 gonal, the walls of stone, although the nests 

 are brick. The total wall-length is sixty-six 

 feet; the height to the eaves, where there is a 

 good corbel-table, twenty feet, and the thick- 

 ness two feet. There is a cupola upon the slat- 

 ed roof 



Each of the six walls, except that in which is 

 the doorway, is broken by a tall arched dummy 



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