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KEARTONS' NATURE PICTURES 



species mercilessly away. You may try 

 as much as you like, but you cannot drive 



A YOUNG DIPPKB. 



the Dipper right oft its own length of 

 river. When it has reached its limit, up 

 or down stream, it will fly round you and 

 away back to its accustomed haunts. 



The architecture of the nest is very 

 similar to that of the brown wren, only 



cleverer. The structure is made of 

 moss, dead leaves, and dry grass, with 

 the entrance hole so cunningly hidden 

 by the overhanging roof that it does not 

 easily give the bird's secret away, or allow 

 any stray splash of water from the 

 tumbling cascade near which it is fre- 

 quently built to gain entrance. 



The same nesting site is frequently 

 used year after year without intermission. 

 It is generally near a waterfall, and 

 sometimes quite behind it, the bird having 

 to fly through the limpid cascade on 

 entering and leaving her home. I have 

 found it, however, in trees overhanging 

 streams, under bridges, in culverts, where 

 it was almost in total darkness, and on 

 boulders in mid stream. 



The eggs generally number five or 

 six, and are white without any kind of 

 markings. The young in their first 

 coat of feathers do not have white 

 breasts. 



