Among the Birds in Northern Shires is an ornithological work by Charles Dixon. Dixon was an English ornithologist, here presenting and delving into the intricacies of various species of birds that roam Northern England and Scotland. Excerpt: "We will commence our observations by an investigation 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 precipitous banks fringed with alders, mountain-ashes, bracken, and brambles. The southern counties can boast no such streams; and even in the wilder south-west of England the becks are wanting in that grandeur that characterizes most of these turbulent northern waters."