Common black European thrush.
1Colley means a blackbird; water-colley, the water-blackbird or water-ousel-calledthe dipper in the North.
2She was a handsome brunette-indeed, the squire called her a "black ousel."
3Sang I, sweet as the bright-billed ousel, a
4SO they journeyed until they came to the nest of an ousel, and Gwrhyr spoke to her.
5He sang the song of the "ousel cock," but he could not make himself heard.
6The ousel cock, so black of hue
7Under the roots of alders the water-ousel often creeps by day, and the tall heron stalks past at night.
9The Aino believe that the heart of the water-ousel is exceedingly wise, and that in speech the bird is most eloquent.
10The water-ousel plucks moss from the riverbank to build its nest, but is does not improve the moss by plucking it.
11A water-ousel with white breast rises and flies on; again disturbed, he makes a circle, and returns to the stream behind.
12The ousel haunts them, while still hang about their coasts the thin undercut drifts that never quite leave the high altitudes.
13Suddenly, I heard the familiar whir of an ousel's wings, and, looking up, saw my little comforter coming straight from the shore.
14Down in the brush by the river was the happy little water-ousel, as cheerful in his way as the dumpy-built musical canyon wren.
15We now begin to expect our vernal migration of ring-ousels every week.
16They went forward until they came to the Ousel of Cilgwri.