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Idem. Another edition in Holinshed’s Chronicles, 3 vols. 
folio, London, 1585, with separate woodcut title to the “ Descrip- 
tion,” as follows : 
The | Description | of Scotland, | Written at the first by Hector 
Boe | tius in Latine, and afterward tran- | slated into the Scotish 
speech by | Iohn Bellenden, Archdeacon of Murrey, and now 
final- | lie into English by | K. H. [ = R. Holinshed]. 
Folio. Black ILetter. The Description, pp. 23 (woodcut title 
included) with the “ Historic of Scotland ” continuing. The 
eleventh chapter (p. 17) contains the account of the “ Claike 
Geese,” with the account of the birds in ch. viii., and there are 
other references to birds. The translation, although attributed 
to Holinshed, is really that of 1577 by W. Harrison. 
Idem. Other issues in Holinshed’s Chronicles. 4-to editions, 
1805 (Vol. I.) and 1807 (Vol. V.). 
Bogg (Edmund). See Rodwell (R.) 
Bolam (George), nat. 1859 
Mr. George Bolam, F.Z.S., of Tyne Bridge, Alston, 
Cumberland, was born at Barmoor, Northumberland, 
November 8, 1859, and educated at Northallerton and 
Uppingham Schools. 
In the Prospectus to his Birds of Northumberland , it is 
stated that the author enjoyed for a long period the personal 
friendship of many of the best known of the older naturalists, 
including the late John Hancock, Charles Murray Adamson, 
and Robert Gray, from all of whom much valuable help was 
from time to time received, and on the death of the first-named 
gentleman a large parcel of his notes and letters relating to 
the avifauna of the north of England, and accumulated since 
the publication of his well-known Catalogue of the Birds of 
Northumberland and Durham , was handed over to the author 
especially for the purpose of his work. Mr. Bolam has also 
contributed many papers and notes to the Hist. Berwicks. 
Nat. Club , Zoologist , Naturalist , etc., and has recently pub- 
lished an interesting work on Wild Life in Wales. 
1879-82. Ornithological Notes. (Hist. Berw. Nat. Club, viii. [1879], 
pp. 111-12, 495-8 ; ix. [1882], pp. 165-70.) 
