50. 
-WATER- 
OUZEL. 
DescriPTIon, 
PLace anp 
Manners. 
Oe Rt ARG Oi: Si EA. 
the crefcent on the breaft.: This laft is faid to come into Lor- 
rain at the end of autumn, remarkably fat. It feeds on Snails, 
and is very adroit in breaking the fhells on a ftone, to get at the 
contents; but in want of Sweails feeds on ivy-berries. It is ac- 
counted good food *. 
Sturnus cinclus, Lia. Syf. i. p. 290. N° 5.—Faun. Suec. N° 214.—Brun. 
N° 230.—Muller. p. 29. N° 236. 
Motacilla cinclus, Scop. ann. i, N° 223.—Kram. el. p. 374. 3. 
Le Merle d’Eau, Brif. orn. v. p. 252. 19.— Buf. of. viii, p. 134. pl. 11.— 
PI. exl. 40. 
Water Ouzel, or Water Crake, Rai Sy. p. 66. A. 7.—Will, orn, P. 149. 
pl. 24.—Albin. ii. pl. 39.—Br. Zool. i. N° 111.—4r&. Zool. 
Br. Muf. Lev, Muf. 
HIS is fomewhat lefs than a Blackbird: length feven inches 
and a half. The bill is ten lines Jong, ftrait, or rather 
bending upwards, and curved downwards at the tip; colour 
black: the irides are hazel : eyelids white: the upper parts of 
the head and neck deep brown; the reft of the upper parts, the 
belly, vent, and tail, are black; but the feathers of the back and 
wings have brownifh edges: the chin, fore part of the neck, and 
breaft, are pure white ; and between that and the black on the 
belly the colour is rufous brown: the legs are black. 
In young birds the belly is white. | 
This fpecies is folitary, and is found in various parts of Eng- 
land, but chiefly fuch as are full of rivulets, and efpecially where 
they are fituated between rocks; this. bird frequenting fuch 
places for the fake of its food, living chiefly on infects and 
{mall fifh, which it fearches for in a fingular manner, by not only 
* Hift. des oif. iii, p. 3476 Re 
diving 
