fountain-dashed

Updated: May 14, 2025

This was undoubtedly the bird's manner of begging for food, a very pretty and well-bred way, too, vastly superior to the impetuous calls and demands of some young birds. The movement was "dipping," of course, and he was the dipper, or ouzel baby, that had been cradled in that fountain-dashed nest by the fall.

Olive Thorne Miller - A Bird-Lover in the West