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Lord Lilford found the Dipper common on the mountain-streams of Albania and Epirus ; 

 and Lindermayer includes it in his work on the ornithology of Greece as a tolerably common 

 resident in that country. Specimens I have examined from Greece are somewhat small in size, 

 and, if any thing, rather paler in colour than Swiss examples. 



To the eastward the present species is found in Palestine, where, Canon Tristram writes 

 (Ibis, 1866, p. 291), "it can only claim a place in the list from its occurrence in the mountain- 

 torrents in the recesses of the Lebanon. In the Nahr el Kelb, Nahr Ibrahim (Adonis), and Ain 

 Fijeh it is not uncommon." 



It has also been met with in Algeria, where, according to Loche, it is of very rare occurrence. 

 Mr. Taczanowski obtained a specimen in the Province of Constantine, between Ghelma and 

 Mehuna, in the month of December; and Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., writes (Ibis, 1872, p. 78) that 

 he " met with four or five on a stream near Blidah," from which locality I have one specimen 

 belonging to Canon Tristram, the type of his Cinclus minor. 



In habits, note, food, and mode of nidification the present species agrees closely with Cinclus 

 aquaticus, except that, according to Mr. Alston, who carefully examined the series of nests in 

 the collection of Count Turati, the present bird appears always to build an open nest, and not a 

 domed one as does C. aquaticus. The nest figured by Bettoni (op. tit.) is clearly an open one ; 

 and Mr. Alston assures me that all those in the collection above referred to, all taken in Italy, and 

 thus belonging to the present form, are open. 



The specimen figured, on the same Plate with C. melanogaster, is also the one described, and 

 is in my collection. 



In the preparation of the above article I have examined the following specimens : — 



E Mus. II. E. Dresser. 



a. Switzerland (Dr. Kutter). b. St. Gothard (M. Naffer Donaziand). c, <$ . Piedmont, February 1869. 

 d, £ , e, ?. Piedmont, October 1871 (Salvadori). f, $. Piedmont. ff,juv. Parnassus, July 10th, 1866 

 (Dr. Kriiper). h, 3. Macedonia, October 16th, 1869 (Dr. Kriiper). i, J. Macedonia, November 8th, 

 1869 (Dr. Kriiper). 



E Mus. Hotvard Saunders. 



a, b. Ursern, Switzerland, 1868 (F.N.D.). c, 6, d, $. Cabuerniga, Santander, August 1869. e,f. Sierra 

 Nevada, 1869. g, <S . Rio Genii, Granada, December 1872. 



E Mus. II. B. Tristram. 



a, 2 • Blidah, Algeria, February 9th, 1870 (/. H. Gurney, jun.) . b, $ . Near the Bone-caves of Lebanon, 

 November 25th, 1863 (H. B. T.). c, d. Eaux Chaudes, Basses-Pyrenees, July 27th, 1867. 



E Mus. Feilden and Harvie Brown. 



a, (5 . Yosges, France, January 11th, 1873. 



E Mus. Baron A. von Hugel. 

 a, 2- Ursern, Switzerland, 1871. 



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