Charles Dixon (ornithologist)

Charles Dixon

Charles Dixon (1858-1926) was an English ornithologist, born in London. He discovered the St Kilda Wren and a new species in North Africa. He collaborated with Henry Seebohm on his great work on British Birds, in the second volume of which he summarized and modified A. R. Wallace's theory of the relation between nests and coloration of birds. Dixon made a special study of bird migration — especially in his book The Migration of Birds (new edition, 1897), an ingenious but overtheoretical work — and of geographical distribution of birds. Of his many books, the following may be mentioned:

• Rural Bird Life (1880)
• Evolution without Natural Selection (1885)
• Our Rarer Birds (1888). An illustration to this is found here:^[1]
• The Nests and Eggs of British Birds (1893; illustrated, 1894)
• British Sea Birds (1896)
• Lost and Vanishing Birds (1898)
• Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands (1899)
• Birds' Nests (1902)
• The Bird Life of London (1909)

He is commemorated in the name of the Long-tailed Thrush Zoothera dixoni.

References

1. ^ Mmslouis - http://mmslouis.googlepages.com at mmslouis.googlepages.com

• This article incorporates text from an edition of the New International Encyclopedia that is in the public domain.

External links

• Birds of a Southern County

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Name	Dixon, Charles
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