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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 
