32 DIPPER 
‘EKeypt’ in East Baldwin, and the Lhingey wooar (Great 
Pool) at Cornah (all very suitable localities). ‘Several 
persons, Mr. Moore wrote, ‘ have seen it now and again up 
to the time of the big snow (1895). None of my friends 
have seen one since. But he afterwards reported that a 
nest was built in Glen Drink, near Agneash, in 1897. 
Mr. Fargher, of Cronk-e-Chule, also tells me that the 
‘Lhondhoo-ny-Hawin, a black bird with a white breast, 
lived around streams and the ditches in ‘moaneys’ (turf- 
wastes), and such places. He showed me a little waterfall 
in the glen between his house and ‘ Laxey Wheel,’ where 
Dippers regularly nested (so he believed, for he did not 
actually see the nests). This stream was not at that time, 
as now, polluted by mine refuse. This fouling of the water 
might perhaps account for its disappearance from certain 
places, but the island has never lacked abundance of clean 
streams.’ Further, the Messrs. Haddon, of Park Llewellyn, 
who are well acquainted with the Dipper, have several times 
found it nesting on the Cornah stream,” and have also met 
with it on the Glen Foss rivulet, which after heavy rain de- 
scends in one white continuous fall from the high moorland 
of Slieu Lhean into Laxey river between Agneash and Snaefell. 
In July 1901 Mr. W. J. C. Joughin observed a Dipper 
high up the Rhenass stream, and at Easter, 1903, Mr. F. S. 
Graves and I saw a pair here, and an unfinished nest which 
was never afterwards completed was found on a face of 
rock over the stream near Little London. Mr. Graves saw 
the birds again in June, and they doubtless nested. in the 
1 ‘God,’ says Blundell, ‘hath gratified the island(s) with excellent fresh water, 
so pure and pleasant to y® taste of necessitated passengers, as y* I have heard 
them protest yt in their opinion there was not anything in this Island y* equalled 
y® goodness of their water.’ Our many beautiful rivulets still deserve this 
raise. 
3 2 In several instances under bridges crossing that water. A Dipper’s nest has 
been placed even beneath Corrany Bridge, which carries the Douglas-Ramsey 
highroad across the stream. 
