Among the best-known species are the Eurasian, or white-bellied, dipper (Cinclus cinclus; see photograph-->), blackish brown with a white breast, found from northern Africa and Europe to Manchuria, and the North American dipper (C. mexicanus), dull gray in colour, found from Alaska to Panama, east to the foothills of the Rockies. Two other species are found in mountainous areas of South America and Asia; there is also an Asiatic species, the brown dipper (C. pallasii), found from the Himalayas to China, Korea, and Japan.