By Upland Streams. 



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and others, and partly to the much greater number 

 of people that wander along the banks nowadays 

 compared with years ago. Be this as it may, the 

 Dipper is still sparingly dispersed along most of the 



The Dipper. 



Streams suited to its requirements. Its exclusive 

 habits tend to characterize it as rarer than it actually 

 is, and its peculiarity of keeping a length ot water 

 reserv^ed for itself and its mate creates an impression 

 of absolute scarcity which in many cases does not 

 actually exist. No wonder the old school of natural- 

 ists were at a loss to assign a place in their classifica- 

 tions to this curious bird. Brisson included it among 



