AMONG THE BIRDS IN 

 NORTHERN SHIRES. 



CHAPTER I. 



BY UPLAND STREAMS. 



THERE are few things more interesting to 

 the lover of bird-life than the comparison of 

 ornithological phenomena as they are pre- 

 sented in various localities, separated, it may be, by 

 but few degrees of latitude. Not only does this 

 apply to the species themselves for even in our 

 own islands the geographical distribution of birds 

 conforms a good deal to latitude, but to their migra- 

 tional movements, their resumption of voice, their 

 seasons of reproduction, their gatherings and move- 

 ments generally, and finally to not a few habits that 

 appear to be confined within narrow territorial limits. 

 We have already dealt with bird-life in its many as- 

 pects in southern haunts with a view to the compari- 

 son of avine phenomena with that of more northern 

 localities; we now propose in the present volume to 

 review the most salient ornithological characteristics 



