COMMON DIPPER. 



IN8SSSOXE8. 



DENTIROSTRES. 



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MERULIDuE. 





THE COMMON DIPPER. 



Cinclus aquaticus. 



Turdus cinclus, Water Ouzel, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 398. 



Sturnus MONT. Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 126. 



Cinclus aquaticus, The Dipper, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 66. 



European Dipper, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 172. 



Water Ouzel, JENYNS, Brit. Yert. p. 98. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Cincle plongeur, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. i. p. 177. 

 CIXCLUS. Generic Characters. Beak of moderate size, angular, and 

 higher than broad at the base ; straight, compressed, and rounded near 

 the end : the point of the upper mandible slightly curving downwards to 

 meet the point of the lower one. Nostrils basal, lateral, placed in a de- 

 pression, cleft longitudinally, partly covered by a membrane. Wings 



the first feather very short ; the second not so long as the third or fourth, 

 which are nearly equal. Feet three toes before and one behind ; tarsus 

 longer than the middle toe ; the lateral toes equal in length ; the outer 

 toe slightly connected to the middle toe. 



