WATER OUZEL. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill awl-shaped. 
Nostrils marginated. 
Tongue acute. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Sternus Cinclus. S. niger, pectore albo. Linn. Syst. Nat. 
Grnel. 1 . p. 803. 
Black, with a white breast. 
Merula aquatica. Briss. Av. 5. p. 252. 
no. 19. 
Water Ouzel. . Buff. Birds, 8. p.126. pi. 203. Brit. Zool. 1. 
p. 312. no. 111 . Arct. Zool. 2. p. 332. /3. 
Will. Orn. p. 149. t. 24. Lath. Syn. 2. 
p. 48. no. 50. 
Among the many birds whose peculiar manners 
we have described, there is none more deserving of 
notice than the water ouzel. While others either 
confine themselves entirely to the air, or occasionally 
float upon the water, this bird, as if the two ele- 
ments where equally indifferent to it, walks with 
the same ease and deliberation at the bottom of a 
