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He says: "An excellent example of how a limited group of species has been able to maintain itself by adaptation to one of these 'vacant places' in Nature, is afforded by the curious little birds called dippers or water-ouzels, forming the genus Cinclus and the family Cindidae of naturalists. These birds are something like small thrushes, with very short wings and tail, and very dense plumage.

Such, then, is our little cinclus, beloved of every one who is so fortunate as to know him.

Cichla, frontal protuberance of male. Cimetiere du Sud, Paris. Cincloramphus cruralis, large size of male. Cinclus aquaticus. Cingalese, Chinese opinion of the appearance of the. Cirripedes, complemental males of. Civilisation, effects of, upon natural selection; influence of, in the competition of nations. Clanging of geese, etc. Claparede, E., on natural selection applied to man.

All the Guernsey Dippers I have seen, including the two in the Museum, which are probably Guernsey-killed, have been the common form, Cinclus aquations. The dark-breasted form, Cinclus melanogaster, may occur as an occasional wanderer, though the Channel Islands are somewhat out of its usual range.

The Golden Oriole is mentioned in Professor Ansted's list, and marked as having occurred in Guernsey and Sark, but nothing more is said about the bird. Probably Guernsey was mentioned as a locality on account of the female specimen in the Museum, but with this exception I have never heard of its making its appearance in Sark even as a straggler. DIPPER. Cinclus aquaticus, Bechstein.