164 PASSERES. CINCLUS. Evrop. Divrer. 
Food. Water insects, and the fry and spawn of fish form its food. 
Song. Its song is variable, and it begins to utter its strong and dis- 
tinct notes very early in the spring, and is the first warbler 
that cheers a visitor to the lonely and romantic situations it 
usually. frequents. It is rather generally diffused throughout 
Europe, inhabiting similar localities to those in Britain. 
Prate 45*. Represents a male bird and female bird of the 
natural size. 
General Head and back part of the neck umber-brown. Upper 
Seep ; parts black, the feathers margined with blackish-grey. 
Throat, eyelids, sides of the neck, and upper part of 
the breast white. Lower part of the breast and belly 
chesnut-brown, passing into brownish-black towards the 
vent. Under tail-coverts blackish-grey. Bill blackish- 
brown. Legs yellowish-grey. Irides yellowish-brown. 
The female is similar to the-male, except that the head 
is of a deeper brown, and the white upon the neck and 
breast is sullied in hue. 
The young are distinguished by the deep-grey feathers 
that cover the head and back part of the neck. In 
them the white also extends lower down the belly to- 
wards the vent, and is crossed by fine rays of yellowish- 
grey or brown. 
Varieties. | A large variety with a dusky bar encircling the bottom of 
the neck, and the white of the breast and belly having 
numerous small black streaks pointing downwards, is 
mentioned by Latuam, in the Second Supplement to 
his General Synopsis, under the title of the Penrith 
Ouzel. The other two varieties mentioned in the Ap- 
pendix to Montracu’s Supplement, I should consider as 
belonging to a very late brood of the preceding year, 
and which had not acquired the complete plumage of 
maturity. 
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