30 BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 



locality on account of the female specimen in the 

 Museum, but with this exception I have never 

 heard of its making its appearance in Sark even as 

 a straggler. 



21. DIPPER. Cinclus aquaticus, Bechstein. 

 French, " Aquassiere," " Cincle plongeur." The 

 Dipper or Water Ouzel, though not very common, 

 less so, indeed, than the Kingfisher, is neverthe- 

 less a resident species, finding food all through the 

 year in the clear pools left by the tide, and also 

 frequenting the few inland ponds, especially the 

 rather large ones, belonging to Mr. De Putron in 

 the Vale, where there is always a Dipper or a King- 

 fisher to be seen, though I do not think the Dipper 

 ever breeds about those ponds in fact there is no 

 place there which would suit it; but though I 

 have never found the nest myself in Guernsey, I 

 have been informed, especially by Mr. Gallienne, 

 that the Dipper makes use of some of the rocky 

 bays, forming his nest amongst the rocks as it 

 would on the streams of Dartmoor and Exmoor. 



Captain Hubboch, however, writes me word he 

 saw one in Alderney in the winter of 1861-62, and 

 there seems no reason why a few should not remain 

 there throughout the year as in Guernsey. 



All the Guernsey Dippers I have seen, including 

 the two in the Museum, which are probably Guern- 

 sey-killed, have been the common form, Cinclus 



