THE BLACK-BELLIED DIPPER. 119 



English bird is represented in the mountain- 

 ranges of Southern and Central Europe by an 

 allied form, Cinclus leucogaster, in Scandinavia is 

 found the Black-bellied Dipper, C, cinclus, and 

 various other races occur throughout the mountains 

 of Siberia, Central Asia, and the Himalayas, as 

 well as in China and Japan. In North America, 

 too, Dippers occur, and are represented in the 

 Rocky Mountains by Cinclus mexicanus, and again 

 by other species in the Highlands of Central 

 America and the Andes of South America. 



The British form of Dipper (C. aquaticus) is 

 found throughout Scotland and Ireland in its 

 favourite haunts, and it also occurs in England, 

 as far south as Derbyshire, in Wales, and in 

 Devonshire and Cornwall. The Black-bellied 

 Dipper (C. cinclus), on the contrary, is the 

 Scandinavian form, and is only a rare visitor 

 to England, where it has been captured in the 

 eastern counties. It is in every way similar to 

 the ordinary Dipper, but has a darker under- 

 surface, the breast being chocolate-brown or 

 black, instead of rufons. In habits it is exactly 

 like an English bird, and builds the same moss- 

 nest, like that of a large Wren. The nest is built 



