BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



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Dipper, 



THE Dipper (Cinclus aquattcus, Bechstein) is a resident in 

 the British Islands. It is also found, subject to some 

 slight modification of colour, in many of the moun- 

 tain regions of Central Europe. The adult has the 

 head and back of neck umber-brown ; remainder of upper 

 parts, dark slaty-grey, with paler margins to feathers on 

 the back ; throat, sides of neck, and upper breast, white ; 

 lower part of breast and abdomen, chestnut-brown, shading 

 into brownish-black towards the vent ; under tail-coverts, 

 blackish, tinged with grey ; flanks, greyish ; irides, brown ; 

 bill, black; legs and feet, brown. Length, from six to 

 seven inches. The female is similar in colour to the male. 

 The young are greyish-brown on upper parts, and chestnut- 

 brown on under parts absent. 



