water-ouzel

I observed the water-ouzel again as high as 8,000 feet.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

The birds, as well as those of the Nurtung river, are the water-ouzel, the greyish-blue water-chat, the red and black ditto with a white head - top, and the black bird, _durn-durns_ or bird producing that cry occurs, but not in great numbers.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

In the case of the water-ouzel, the acutest observer by examining its dead body would never have suspected its subaquatic habits; yet this bird, which is allied to the thrush family, subsists by diving—using its wings under water, and grasping stones with its feet.

VI. Difficulties of the Theory. On the Origin and Transitions of Organic Beings with Peculiar Habits and Structure 1909

Millicent was sitting in a window-seat with a paint-box beside her and a drawing of a water-ouzel upon her knee.

The Long Portage Harold Bindloss 1905

You see, its purpose is to show people what a water-ouzel is like and it's hard to make the creature out.

The Long Portage Harold Bindloss 1905

How beautiful is the adventure which has led our dipper or water-ouzel -- a bird allied to the wrens -- to try walking and flying under water!

The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told J. Arthur Thomson 1897

The water-ouzel is found by the alpine lakes and brooks on the mountains of the West.

Wild Life on the Rockies Enos Abijah Mills 1896

Thrushes fill the forest aisles with melody, and by the brooks the ever-joyful water-ouzel mingles its music with the song of ever-hurrying, ever-flowing waters.

Wild Life on the Rockies Enos Abijah Mills 1896

Along the brooks and streams lives the water-ouzel.

Wild Life on the Rockies Enos Abijah Mills 1896

Did not Stamp point out to him a water-ouzel, with impudently jerking tail, dipping and wading in the shallows of the stream?

The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891