FIGEONS. 
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screened from cold winds, which are extremely prejudicial to 
the birds; a southern or south-western aspect should, therefore, 
if possible, be chosen; visits from cats and rats must also be 
carefully guarded against. 
If the young fancier be enabled to fit up a loft over a stable, 
or other out-building, for a pigeon house, the best arrangement 
he can adopt is that shown in the above illustration. The 
means for exit and re-entrance must be first thought of; and 
if there be no window in the loft, two holes must be made in 
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I the wall, at about five feet from the floor, each sufficiently 
large to admit a pigeon easily; a shelf should be fastened on j 
^ the inside, and another on the outside, of the said apertures; on ^ 
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