Charles Dixon

Who was Charles Dixon?

Charles Dixon 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, an ingenious but overtheoretical work — and of geographical distribution of birds. Of his many books, the following may be mentioned:

Rural Bird Life

Evolution without Natural Selection

Our Rarer Birds. An illustration to this is found here:

The Nests and Eggs of British Birds

British Sea Birds

Lost and Vanishing Birds

Game Birds and Wild Fowl of the British Islands

Birds' Nests

The Bird Life of London

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