#dippers

American Dipper Cinclus mexicanus

white-throated dipper

Another Animate Feathursday

Once again we display a chromolithographic plate from Animate Creation by the English natural history popularizer J. G Wood (1827-1889), published in New York in three volumes by Selmar Hess in 1885, with color prints by the noted Boston lithographing firm L. Prang & Company.

The plate depicts European dippers (genus Cinclus), wagtails (genus Motacilla), and wrens (family Troglodytidae). The species shown are not identified, but we are pretty sure that what we see here are, from top to bottom:

Eurasian Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes)

White-throated Dipper (Cinclus cinclus)

Grey Wagtail (Motacilla cinerea) 

Our copy of Animate Creaton is a revised edition, adapted to American zoology by the American physician and zoologist Joseph B. Holder, of an earlier British publication by Wood first published in London by George Routledge as The Illustrated Natural History in 1853.

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Dipper....and...dipper and dipper and dipper and dipper?!

what's with all these dippers!?!?

fr though, these birds are funky :>

Simplfied bird #105 - american dipper