By Upland Streams. 1 3 



two areas — to northern and southern counties re- 

 spectively — he will find differences of from one to 

 two months in the ornitholog'ical calendar. Lastly, 

 he will meet with a multitude of interesting forms, 

 both in summer and in winter, that are normally 

 strangers to southern localities at one season or the 

 other, or at both seasons. 



We will commence our observations by an in- 

 vestigation of the bird-life along the upland streams 

 — not in their lower and quieter reaches, but at some 

 elevation up the hillsides where the waters hurry and 

 tumble along over rocky beds and between more 

 or less pl^ecipitous bcUiks fringed with alders, moun- 

 tain-ashes, bracken, and l)rambles. The southern 

 counties can boast no such streams; and even in the 

 wilder south-west of England the becks are wantino- 

 in that "randeur that characterizes most of these tur- 

 bulent northern waters. For twenty years or more 

 we lived surrounded by them and within ear of their 

 noisy clamour; whilst the birds upon their banks 

 were our constant companions summer and winter 

 alike. To our mind the ideal upland stream is one 

 of the most picturesque features in the Peak district. 

 They may be grander and wilder farther north, but 

 with experiences of them in the remote Highlands 

 and the Hebrides in mind, for romantic charm and 

 wealth of bird-life these Derbyshire and Yorkshire 

 brooks, in our opinion, remain unequalled. Almost 



