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purpose a broad shallow pan or dish should be provided. It 

 may be of zinc or galvanized iron, and a good size for a 

 smallish loft is about two feet square by three or four inches 

 deep, filled with water to the depth of about two and a half 

 inches. We strongly recommend that the bath be always 

 allowed, except in freezing weather ; and if so, it must be re- 

 newed at least eveiy two days, as it becomes rapidly fouled by 

 a kind of floury "bloom," which comes off the bii-d when 



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bathing, and which readily rubs off even on a dry coat-sleeve. 

 It is much the best if the bath can be placed in the outside 

 aviary, as it can in. nearly all cases ; but if any peculiar circum- 

 stances make this inconvenient, a special pattern should be 

 made, with extra or outer sides, some six inches distant from 

 the inner pan which holds the water, and which will catch the 

 splashing. A bath in the loft is, however, such a constant 

 nuisance, that it should always be avoided if possible ; in fact, 

 we are convinced that even the mere presence of so much 

 evaporating surface of water is distinctly injurious, and causes 

 miany attacks of cold or roup. When small and weakly 



