THE DIPPER. 45 



leaves, dried grass and bits of river weed in 

 preference to hair or feathers. Indeed the two 

 latter I have never noticed. The eggs are plain 

 white, four or five in number; usually found 

 the second week of April in Devonshire, or a 

 week later in Yorkshire. 



So frequently do they pass and repass that I 

 have touched them with the line in casting; and 

 have known of one being hooked foul in the 

 wing by an angler, and brought to bank after 

 diving furiously. 



