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Show A Mammoth Pljeon nanch, fillinted ut tho sharp angle where the Arro)o beco or dty ditch, (a rn-. rn-. n?th?,T """nl", from Los Angeles lo tho Sierra Miidro mountains iume fourteen milts away), and the Los Angeles An-geles ilver (nt this point pljhteen miles from the sea) meet, Is ono of tho most curloUT exhibits ot pigeon life ever presented to tho ese Here 10 000 pigeons, mostly light lu color, are found perched upon tho roofs of eight Iramo sheds The walls of them sheds nro composed of hundreds of empt) Miiolino cans with ono of tho ends taken out and wooden boards with apertures Inrgo enough for pig. cons subMltuted, and thousands of wooden n til t boxes furnished with square openings Ihe ground Is gen-einlly gen-einlly coiercd with pigeons until a strangei arrives when theie li u great whining noise, tho air Is full nf wings, and thousands of plfonn return to I tb, it btetbi n on the roafs ot tho -ll dl This Institution belong 10 one of Los Angeles s entet prising iltlzon an I forms a great altiiutlou to visitors visi-tors fiom all the counti round ns well as to numeious colored thieves, who make n eoiitlmial practice of nibbing nib-bing this inst aggregation of pigeon loootn Two Iniaro dog prupetl) qu il-llled il-llled to biuk and bite nie located at each end of the grounds nbout 200 feet fiom corh other These are se, uisM safeh bj long chains to spikes ln the gtuund Hut these, tierce ns they are, do not lepresent the entire force for the dc-fense dc-fense from thieves of the lOnno pig. eon two )oung dog tinlned to balk nnd not to bile s-o on eluty nlso nil tho time these are more sleepless and It Is the upioar the) ninkc upon whlih the owner so much depends for the discover) of the colored thieves Disease Dis-ease nnd rats take awn) a gloat many or this multitudinous bird populitlon, dull) some oting pigeons will b. found on the croilnil dead having gone too far from the family nest Pearvons for April |