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chick. It was this instinct that made it fit, when 
the winds of the flood had passed off, and the waters 
had assauged, and the fountains of the deep were 
stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained, 
and the streams were returning to their beds, to 
career over destruction, and come back to the ark, 
the messenger of mercy to a perishing world. 
In the Reverend Saul Dixon’s amusing as well as 
instructive book ‘the Dove-cot and the Aviary,” we 
have a collection of facts and anecdotes respect« 
ing pigeons that render it as fresh as a newspaper. 
There we find that the Russia pigeon of the Yars 
mouth breeders, is a bird that has gone the voyage 
from the Mediterranean to Archangel. ‘ ‘The Yar- 
mouth sailors are very fond of buying pigeons in the 
Mediterranean ports, and they are great pets on board 
ship. They breed them in lockers and hen-coops, 
and they are sometimes allowed their liberty, and 
permitted to fly round about the vessel, while she is 
pursuing her course on a fine day.” If we would 
have a thorough good account of the rock-pigeon in 
its maritime life and cavern home, take St. John’s 
Tour in Sutherland. The blue rock-pigeons live in 
‘all the caves on the const of Sutherland, and are to 
be seen flitting to and fro, from morning to night. 
‘Although the wind had fallen,” when the sports- 
‘taen went thither for 2 day’s sport, “the swell was 
tremendous, dashing the spray half way up the rocks. 
‘It was acurious sight,” he says, “ to see the rock- 
pigeons flying rapidly into the caves, sometimes dash- 
ing like lightning through the very spray of the 
breakers, scarcely topping the crests of the waves, 
