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fnE FOLE-HOUSI-. 
Tent the egress of the birds. These the owner can raise at pleasure. 
From Dixon's ' Dovecote and Aviary ' we give a cut of a trap, copied 
from one in use by Mr. Brown, a large Pigeon-breeder at Norwich 
This is a modification of the plan above described, the trap itself 
being within the building, and only the platform outside. 
Hg. 2. 
Diagram 1 represents the interior, showing the loose bars called 
' the bolt ' ; sis the little swinging cteor on the inner end ; c is the 
string which pulls up the outer door. 
Diagi'am 2. a represents the door of the trap outside the building ; 
B the inner end of the trap where the swinging doors hang; c the 
string used to pull up the outer door. 
Our next diagrams represent a ground plan and elevation of a 
small pole house. "We will suppose a pair of birds take possession 
of the suite of apartments whose landing place is marked a : they 
will probably pass tlirough the vestibule b when they first bring in 
stores for the nest, and deposit them in one of the chambers c : when 
the young are a fortnight or three weeks old, the hen will probably 
leave them entirely in the care of the cock, and make a fresh nest, 
and lay in the opposite apartment d. As soon as the first pair of 
young are flown, if they be not taken ere fully fledged, for the table, 
c will be vacant for the hatching of a third brood ; and so, by shift- 
ing alternately from one room to the other, and never being idle, a 
good pair of parent birds will produce quite a little flock by the end 
of the summer. Meanwhile the same process is proceeding on the 
other side of the building, which m<iy be seen in the ground plan. 
With regard to the interior accommodations required in Pigeon 
lofts, one of the most important is the nesting places, of which there 
