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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[BOLTON 
1884. Ornithological Notes [from Berwick-upon-Tweed]. ( Proc . Berw. 
Nat. Club, x. pp. 384-96.) 
1885. Notes of Arrival and Departure of Birds ; Ornithological Notes. 
(Op. cit. pp. 581-9.) 
1890. Some Notes on the Occurrence of Pallas’s Sand-Grouse in the 
District during the recent visitation. (Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, 
xii., 1889, pp. 542-51.) 
1892. Ornithological Notes. (Hist. Berw. Nat. Club, 1890-91, pp. 345-68.) 
Occurrence of the Snow Goose in Northumberland. (Naturalist, 
pp. 1-3.) 
1896-99. A List of the Birds of Berwick-on-Tweed, with special reference 
to “ The Birds of Berwickshire,” and notice of the occurrence of 
some of the rarer species in the adjoining district. (Ann. Scott. 
N.H., 1896, pp. 76-93 ; 1897, pp. 5-14 and 79-88 ; 1899, pp. 
65-72.) 
On the Breeding of the Wigeon (Mareca penelope) on the Borders. 
(Op. cit. pp. 219-20.) 1896. 
1900. Ornithological Notes. (Hist. Berw. Club, xviii. pp. 89-108.) 
1905. Ornithological Notes. (Op. cit. pp. 69-72.) 
1912. The Birds of Northumberland and the Eastern Borders, illustrated. 
Alnwick : 1912. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, photo title, pp. iv un. + pp. xvii + pp. 
726, with 27 photo pi. 
Bolton (James), ob. 1799 
Bolton was a self-taught naturalist in humble life, residing 
near Halifax, Yorks, who drew and etched all his own 
illustrations. He published a valuable and scarce work 
entitled A History of Funguses growing about Halifax (4 vols. 
4to, 1788-91) and Filices Britannicae (4to, 1785-90), and 
wrote on the plants in Wilson’s History of Halifax (1775). 
He also, according to Britten, drew plates for Belhan’s 
Flora Cantabrigiensis . 1 
As regards his Harmonia Ruralis, there is no doubt 
that this work is of more interest to the book collector than 
the ornithologist at the present day, yet various opinions 
have been held of it. “ The figures — drawn and coloured 
from Nature, by the author — are of little value. The work 
1 For further particulars of Bolton vide An Eighteenth-Century Naturalist : James 
Bolton, by Charles Crossland (Halifax, 1910). 
