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CINCLUS AQUATICUS, Bechstein. DIPPER. 
Manx, *Lhondhoo-ny-Hawin= Blackbird of the stream ; Lhon 
Ushtey =Water Thrush. 
Mr. Henry Cadman, who as a fisherman had long and 
intimate acquaintance with the many beautiful streams of 
the Isle of Man, says in his pleasant book of fishing 
reminiscences, ‘There are not any Water Ouzels in Man.’ 
The experience of the present writer was long the same, for 
until 1903 he had never seen a living Manx specimen of 
the bird, although sometimes for years almost daily in 
neighbourhoods which it might be expected to frequent. 
Yet the remark cannot have been strictly accurate. In 
both his lists Mr. Kermode classes it as perhaps resident 
in small numbers, and in the second states that he has seen 
it during the winter months. 
‘Philornis’ (1867) says that several Water Ouzels 
frequented a little trout stream in his neighbourhood, and 
though his account is very faulty, he can hardly be mistaken 
in this, as he states that he shot one of them. 
In 1890 there was in Mr. Adams’s hands a specimen which 
had been obtained (in October) on the Silverburn. At the 
Ginger Hall Hotel at Sulby Bridge is a stuffed specimen 
killed in that neighbourhood, another at Orrisdale; and one 
presented about 1894, by Mr. Kermode, is with two others 
in the Isle of Man Natural History Society’s collection at 
Ramsey. 
These might be passing migrants, but Mr. J. R. Moore, of 
Laxey, gave me the Manx name ‘ Lhondhoo-ny-Hawin’ as 
that of a bird well known, at one time at least, in Lonan, 
and having made some inquiries for me, reported that ‘ there 
used to be one in the glen above Snaefell Mines,’ that is, 
the head of the main Laxey Glen. It also frequented 
