Concerning the Water Ouzel, now called American Dipper:
In a general way his music is that of the streams refined and spiritualized. The deep booming notes of the falls are in it, the trills of rapids, the gurgling of margin eddies, the low whispering of level reaches, and the sweet tinkle of separate drops oozing from the ends of mosses and falling into tranquil pools.
The Mountains of California (1894), chapter 13: The Water-Ouzel
