50.
WATEROUjZEL.
Description.
Place a n »
Manners.
the crefcent on the breaft. This laft is faicf'to come into "Lav-
ram at the end of autumn, remarkably fat. It feeds on Snails,
and is very adroit in breaking the ftiells on a ftone, to get at the
contentsi but in want of Snails feeds on ivy-berries. It is accounted
good food *.
Sturnus cinclus, Lin. Sy/l. i. p. 290. N° 5»—Faun* Suee. N° zi^.—Brun.
N° 230.—Muller. p. 29. N° 236.
Motacilla cinclus, Scop. ann. i. N° 223.— Krapi. el. p. 374. 3.
Le Merle d’Eau, Brif. orn. v. p. 252. 1 y.— Buf. oif, viii. p. 134. pi. 11.—
PI. enl. 940*
Water Ouzel, or Water Crake, Rati Sjta. p. 66. A. 7— Will. orn. p. 149.
pi. 24.— Albin. ii. pi. 39.— Rr- Zool. i. N° u i .— A tit. Zool.
Br. Mu/. Lev. Mu/.
» p H I S is fomewhat lefs than a Blackbird: length feven inches
and a half. The bill is ten lines long, ftrait, or rather
bending upwards, and curved downwards at the tip; colour
black': the irides are hazel : eyelids white : the upper parts of
the head and neck deep brown ; the reft of the upper parts, the
belly, vent, and tail, are black; but the feathers of the back and
wings have brownifh edges: the chin, fore part of the neck, and
breaft, are pure white ; and between that and the black on the
belly the colour is rufous brown : the legs are black.
In young birds the belly is white.
This fpecies is folitary, and is found in various parts of England,
but chiefly fuch as are full of rivulets, and efpecially where
they are fituated between rocks; this bird frequenting fuch
places for the fake of its food, living chiefly on infefts and
fmall fifh, which it fearches for in a Angular manner, by not only
* Hijt. detoif. Hi. p. 347-
diving