270 Life and Immortality. 
FEMALE BALTIMORE ORIOLE. 
Nest the Excluslve 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 fora 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 
