40 DIPPER. 



DIPPER. 



COMMON DIPPER. EUROPEAN DIPPER. 

 WATER OUZEL. WATER CROW. 



PLATE XCVII. 



Cinclus aquaticus, FLEMING. SELHV 



Turdus cindus, PENNANT. 



Slurnus cindus, MONT AC ;i'. 



1\TIDIFICATION begins about the middle of April. 

 -*~^ The nest, which is cleverly concealed, and large, 

 measuring ten or twelve inches in diameter, and seven 

 or eight in depth, being domed, is well compacted of 

 moss and grass, and fully lined with leaves. It is 

 placed in some cavity in a rock, or under the protection 

 of some overhanging stone in the immediate neigh- 

 bourhood of the rippling stream or murmuring waterfall, 

 the birds' favourite haunt. Different specimens however 

 vary in size as well as shape, adapted doubtless to the 

 circumstances of the spot they are placed in, some 

 being a couple of inches less than the size just spoken 

 of. The aperture is in front, from three to four inches 

 in width, and about one and a half in height. Mr. 

 Macgillivray mentions one, described to him by Thomas 

 Durham Weir, Esq., which was built in an angle between 

 two fragments of rocks under a small cascade, and 



