THE WATER-OUZEL 



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WATER-OUZEL DIVING AND FEEDING. 



If disturbed while dipping about in the margin 

 shallows, he either sets off with a rapid whir to 

 some other feeding-ground up or down the stream, 

 or alights on some half-submerged rock or snag 

 out in the current, and immediately begins to nod 

 and courtesy like a wren, turning his head from 

 side to side with many other odd dainty move- 



