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ORD. 1: GENUS I. OUZEL. 
Bitz, roundifh, upper mandible notched, and a little bent at the point. 
Nosrrits, naked, and half covered by a membrane. 
Toneve, flightly divided at the end. 
SPECIES fl WATER OUZEL 
Pi. ¢4: 
Sturnus cinclus. Lin. Sy/t. 1. p. 290. 
Le Merle d’Eau. Brif. Orn. V. p. 252. 
The length of this bird is not more than feven inches and half, and its breadth 
eleven inches. The bill is narrow, flattifh, and a little bent at the point; its 
colour is black: the eyes hazel; the eye-lids white: upper part of the head and 
neck deep brown: back and fhoulders dark lead colour fpotted with white : 
tail and wing coverts dark lead colour: quill feathers deep brown: chin and 
fore part of the neck white: breaft orange colour: belly and thighs brown: 
vent white: legs dufky. In young birds the belly is white. 
Linnzeus places the water ouzel in the genus ftare; and indeed it bears con- 
fiderable refemblance to the ftarling, in the flatnefs of its bill, and the fhortnefs 
of its tail. But I have thought it advifeable to clafs the ouzels by themfelves, 
as an intermediate link between the ftare and thrufh genus; fince they feem to 
form a gradual paffage from one to the other, in the order in which they are 
here placed, which will appear evident from a view of the figures. 
This fpecies is very folitary, and is found in the more northern parts of England, 
in the neighbourhood of ftreams, living on infects and {mall fifhes. The latter 
it takes by diving and running under water after them, contrary to the habit of 
land birds. It makes a neft on the ground, on the banks of rivulets, of hay and 
dried fibres of roots, lining it with dead oak or other leaves, and making an en- 
trance or porch to it with mofs. The eggs are five in number; for which fee 
the middle figure of Pl. XIII. 

Tim 
