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Life and Immortality. 



FEMALE BALTIMORE ORIOLE. 

 Nest the Exclusive Work of Her Bill. 



about for a corner where she could be free to carry out her 

 intentions without fear or interference. The attic furnished the 

 place, and after fitting it up with a large tree-branch for a perch, 

 and plenty of new white strings for building purposes, he 

 bore his favorite and her partner to their new quarters. Soon 

 the female became at home and entered into her voluntarily- 

 imposed labor with alacrity, and at the end of a week had 

 constructed a domicile which her untamed prototypes of field 



