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CINCLUS EUROP.EUS. THE EUROPEAN DIPPER. 



WATER OUZEL. W.\TER CROW. WATER PIET. DIPPER. DUCKER. KING- 

 FISHER. AN OOBHCHAN UISGE. GOBHA UISGE. GOBHA DUBH NAN ALLT. 



Sturnus Cinclus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 290. 



Turdus Cinclus. Lath. Ind. Orn. I. 343. 



Water Ouzel. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Cincle plongeur. Cinclus aquaticus. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 177. 



European Dipper. Cinclus aquaticus. Selb. Tllustr. I. 172. 



Cinclus aquaticus. Water Ouzel. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 98. 



Male icitk the head and hind-neck dark brown, the upper parts 

 dark grey, the feathers broadly margined xcith black, the throat 

 and fore-neck white, the breast broicnish-red. Female similar, 

 with the tints less deep. Young with the upper parts all grey, 

 the feathers margined with black, the fore-neck and breast white^ 

 undulated with dusky. 



Male. — Among our native birds the Dipper is remarkable 

 for the compactness of its form, in which respect, as well as in 

 some of its motions and attitudes, it bears a considerable re- 

 semblance to the Wren. Its principal features being precisely 

 accordant with the generic description already given, those 

 only which are peculiar or more characteristic are selected on 

 the present occasion. The bill in old individuals is generally 



