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Life and Immortality. 



ACADIAN FLYCATCHERS. 

 Nest Curious on Account of Its Train. 



I am inclined to think that safety was uppermost in the 

 minds of the builders, for, looking from below at the nest it 

 seemed but a mass of rags that had been thrown into a tree- 

 crotch, which, the birds perceiving, and its close resemblance 

 to an entangled bunch, had utilized. 



Certainly no more beautiful nests in shape exist than the 

 spherical in form. The Long-billed Marsh Wren builds a nest 

 of this type. Upon its arrival in the spring it seeks the 

 inland swamps, or the brackish marshes of the sea-shore, 

 where, amid the splatterdocks of the former and reeds of 

 the latter, it finds suitable shelter and protection. There, day 



