resembles the Common Wren in character, always in a 

 hurry, diving into the most rapid streams or boiling pools 

 below a fall, and on emerging flying to a stone, often in 

 mid-stream, whence he pours out a very pleasant song 

 with continual bobbings and bowings of the body and 

 jerks of the short tail ; one eminently attractive point 

 about this bird is that his cheery song is continued 

 throughout the winter months. 



The Water-Ousel, as our bird is frequently called, lays 

 six or seven white eggs early in the year, in a large 

 shapeless nest of green moss and dry leaves, with an 

 aperture on one side of it ; this structure is usually 

 placed among stones on a ledge of rock in the close 

 neighbourhood of running water, sometimes in an old 

 stone wall, and not uncommonly actually under, or, as I 

 should perhaps say, behind, a waterfall. 



