Loi-t for Flying Pigeons. 
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The same kind of area, on the top of a loft or house suitable for flying pigeons, is shown in 
Fig. 13. It is drawn from an actual example erected entirely of wood at the bottom of a garden, 
and can be readily put up in such a situation at no great expense. Inside arc wire pens 
on each side, which serve well as breeding-places so long as the doors to them are left open, while 
they give the power of confining any birds as desired. Shelves fitted up as in Fig. 2 may be 
Fig. 13 . — Detached House and Area for Flying Pigeons. 
substituted if desired, or one side may have shelves and the other the wire pens. Such a 
construction may indeed obviously be varied, to meet individual wishes or requirements, in a dozen 
different ways ; but we give it as an actual example, well adapted for the general purposes of the 
pigeon-flier. 
Rats often give great trouble in a pigeon-loft, and many of them might almost be termed 
“good fanciers,” they so invariably select the best. It is worth while taking some trouble to prevent 
them coming in. at all; and as they almost always do their preliminary gnawing at the angle of 
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