36 BRITISH BIRDS. 



Adult : head and nape greyish-brown, streaked with 

 darker brown ; feathers of back brown, with dark centres ; 

 lesser and greater wing-coverts tipped with white, forming 

 two bars ; quills dark brown ; secondaries tipped and 

 edged with chestnut ; tail feathers dark brown, with dull 

 white tips ; throat white, spotted with black ; breast and 

 centre of belly brownish-grey ; sides mottled with reddish- 

 brown ; bill blackish above, yellow at lower base ; tarsi 

 orange. Length 7*00. 



Fourteen examples have been recorded as taken or seen 

 in England and Wales since 1817, when one was shot at 

 Walthamstow, Essex, but not recorded until 1832. 



Family Cinclidse. 



GENUS XVIII. CINCLUS, Beohstein (1802). 

 Bill of medium length, nearly straight, base laterally 

 compressed. Gape narrow; bristles absent. Wings short, 

 broad ; tail short. Tarsus moderately long. Plumage 

 close ; whole body clothed with down. 



46. Cinelus cinelus (Linn.), 

 BLACK-BELLIED DIPPER. 



Hab. Scandinavia and Northern Russia, straggling 

 southward and westward in winter. 



Although accorded separate rank in the British Ornith- 

 ologists' Union list, this form is considered by recent 

 workers to be so doubtfully distinct* from the next 

 that I have included the latter as a sub-species only. 

 The northern bird is distinguished by the upper belly being 

 black instead of chestnut. The late Mr. Stevenson 

 recorded this race as an occasional winter visitor to Norfolk 

 and Suffolk, and Mr. J. H. Gurney has had an example 

 from Yorkshire. 



