306 TIMELIIDJE. 



c,d,e. Ad. ;/. Juv. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Esq. [r.l. 



g. Ad. ; h, i. Juv. sk. Nepal. B. H. Hodgson, Es^. [P.]. 



k-o. Sk. Nepal {B. H. India Museum. 



Hodgsoti). 



45. CINCLUS. 



Tvpe. 



Cinclus, Bechst. Orn. Taschcnh. p. 206 (1802) C. ci'nclus. 



Aquatilis, Montagu, Orn. Diet. Suppl. Cat. p. 2 (1813). . C. aquatilis. 



Hydrobata, VieiU. Nouv. Diet. (THist. Nat. i. p. 219 (1816). C. albicollis. 



Cf. Salvin, Ibis, 1867, pp. 109-122 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1880, p. 190. 



Bill of Cinclus. Leg of Cinclus. 



Bange. As a rule Dippers are northern birds, and are largely- 

 spread over the Palsearctic Region wherever there are mountains with 

 swiftly flowing streams to afford a suitable habitat. They are 

 found over the greater part of Europe and Northern Asia, and occur 

 on the Atlas Mountains in Algeria, and again in Asia Minor and the 

 mountains of the Lebanon. Though met with in Scandinavia and 

 Northern Eussia, they appear to be only scantily represented in the 

 greater part of the latter country ; but they reappear in the Ural 

 Mountains and Caucasus, whence they extend through Persia into 

 Central Asia and to Cashmere ; thence they range throughout the 

 Himalayas, and the greater part of China and Western Siberia, 

 inhabiting Kamtschatka and the Aleutian Isles. 



In the New World they are found from the Yukon south\vards 

 along the Rocky Mountains to the highlands of Mexico and Central 

 America. Two species only occur in South America, in the Andes 

 of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, 



Key to the Swedes. 

 a. No white cap. 

 a'. Throat white. 



a. Throat and chest white ; breast and abdo- , ^.^^^;^^^, ^^^^ ^^^ 



men darker < on i 



a'. Flanks conspicuously grey. ' ^' 



a". Rufous breast conspicuous and bright. 

 a". Head dark brown ; upper parts 

 generally dark ; breast conspi- 

 cuously rufous, but the abdomen 



blackish .- aquaticit^, p. 307. 



/3"'. Head lighter brown; upper" 

 parts generally paler ; breast 

 bright rufous, extending onto the 

 abdomen albicollis, p. 310. 



