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for its nest. I got another nest further up the burn, below an 

 overhanging bit of the bank, near a waterfall; it was only 

 reached by getting up on the shoulders of another man. Four 

 different dippers' nests were got on the Kenly that year. Next 

 year I got a nest with five deep-sitten eggs on the 17th of April, 

 and on the 4th of May 1889, although a bleak spring, I got a 

 nest with four nearly ripe young ones in Bonnytown Den on 

 Kenly thus early, and on the 25th of May there were raw 

 young ones in the same nest. They return year after year to 

 the same place, which is peculiarly well adapted for them, as 

 the bank of the burn and tree roots overhang, and the burn 

 runs below. They have two, often three broods in the year. 

 Further down the burn I got another nest with four ripe young 

 ones. On the 8th of June four eggs were taken out of a nest 

 where the young ones flew ; the nest was lined with dry grass, 

 and on the 20th of June there were another four eggs in the 

 same nest, this time lined with dry leaves, presumably by the 

 same birds. One of the nests was built on a bare sloping face 

 of the rock, so artfully composed of moss, dried grass, and 

 leaves that it looked just like a natural tuft growing on the 

 rock. The length of this interesting aquatic bird is 7 J and 12 \ 

 inches in extent of wings. The general colour of the male on 

 the back is black, the feathers margined with grey ; head and 

 back of the neck, umber-brown ; throat, eyelids, sides of the 

 neck, and upper part of the breast, white ; lower part of the 

 breast and belly, chesnut-brown, shading to brownish-black 

 towards the tail ; bill, blackish-brown ; legs, yellowish-grey ; 

 irides, yellowish-brown. The female similar, except the head 

 deeper brown, and the white on the neck and breast not so 

 pure. The young are grey on the head and back of the neck. 



The next sub-family in this arrangement is 



The ORIOLAXA. 



Genus, Oriolus. Temn. 



The Golden Oriole. (Oriolus Galbula.) Linn. 



Although there is a group of these lovely birds, this is the 

 only species found in Europe, and very rare in Britain. 



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