COMMON DIPPER. 181 
INSESSORES. MERULID &. 
DENTIROSTRES 
THE COMMON DIPPER. 
Cinclus aquaticus. 
Turdus cinclus, Water Ouzel, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. i. p. 398. 
Sturnus 4, 3 5 Mont. Ornith. Dict. 
op sD os = Berwick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 126. 
Cinelus aquaticus, The Dipper, Fem. Brit. An. p. 66. 
$ 5 European Dipper, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. i. p. 172. 
4s a Water Ouzel, Jenyns, Brit Vert. p. 98. 
” ” ° % Govu.p, Birds of Europe, pt. vil. 
5 3 Cincle plongeur, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. vol. i. p. 177. 
CincLus. Generic Characters.—Beak of moderate size, angular, and higher 
than broad at the base ; straight, compressed, and rounded near the end: the 
point of the upper mandible slightly curving downwards to meet the point of the 
lower one. Nostrils basal, lateral, placed in a depression, cleft longitudinally, 
partly covered by a membrane. Wings—the first feather very short; the second 
not so long as the third or fourth, which are nearly equal. Feet—three toes be- 
fore and one behind ; tarsus longer than the middle toe ; the lateral toes equal in 
length ; the outer toe slightly connected to the middle toe. 
