Colley means a blackbird; water-colley, the water-blackbird or water-ousel-calledthe dipper in the North.

She was a handsome brunette-indeed, the squire called her a "black ousel."

Sang I, sweet as the bright-billed ousel, a

SO they journeyed until they came to the nest of an ousel, and Gwrhyr spoke to her.

He sang the song of the "ousel cock," but he could not make himself heard.

The ousel cock, so black of hue

Under the roots of alders the water-ousel often creeps by day, and the tall heron stalks past at night.

And the ousel answered:

The Aino believe that the heart of the water-ousel is exceedingly wise, and that in speech the bird is most eloquent.

The water-ousel plucks moss from the riverbank to build its nest, but is does not improve the moss by plucking it.

A water-ousel with white breast rises and flies on; again disturbed, he makes a circle, and returns to the stream behind.

The ousel haunts them, while still hang about their coasts the thin undercut drifts that never quite leave the high altitudes.

Suddenly, I heard the familiar whir of an ousel's wings, and, looking up, saw my little comforter coming straight from the shore.

Down in the brush by the river was the happy little water-ousel, as cheerful in his way as the dumpy-built musical canyon wren.

We now begin to expect our vernal migration of ring-ousels every week.

They went forward until they came to the Ousel of Cilgwri.