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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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is of no use at the present day. 55 (Cf. N. Wood’s Ornitho- 
logist's Text Booh , p. 17, 1836.) “ This is perhaps the most 
ornate, or luxurious, work on British Song Birds of the last 
Century, and it ought to remain in some sort a ‘ standard 5 
treatise notwithstanding N. Wood’s fiat. 55 (Cf. Coues, 
p. 369.) 
1791 [-6]. Harmonia Ruralis ; | or, | An Essay | towards | A .Natural 
History | of | British | Song Birds. Volume the First. | [Vol. 
II. m.m. 1796.] Illustrated | with Figures the Size of Life, of the 
Birds, Male and Female, | in their most natural Attitudes ; | 
their Nests and Eggs, Food, favourite Plants, Shrubs, Trees, &c. 
&c. | Faithfully drawn, engraved, and coloured | After Nature. | 
By the Author, | on Forty Copper-Plates. | [Quotation 1 lines.] | 
Natura Semper Eadem, Sed Artes Sunt Variae. | By James 
Bolton. | [Device] | Printed for and sold by the Author, at 
Stannary, near Halifax ; | sold also by B. and J. White, in 
London, and may | be had of all other Booksellers. | 1791 [-96]. 
Collation — 2 vols. fob Vol. I. front. + pp. viii + pp. 10, with xl. 
pi. Vol II. pp. 6 un. + pp. 11-82, with xl. pi. (lxxxi. plates in 
all.) 
This, the first edition, also appeared with the plates uncoloured. 
Idem. Another edition, without the author’s name on the 
title, 2 vols. Ito, Bond., 1821, containing lxxxi. plates. 
Idem. “ A New Edition, revised and augmented.” London 
(H. Gr. Bohn), mdcccxlv. 
Collation — 2 vols. roy. Ito with lxxxi. plates. 
Bond (J. A. Walpole). See Walpole-Bond (J. A.) 
Bond (Thomas), 1765-1838 
This writer was Town Clerk of Looe (cf. Gent's Mag. 
ix. 667). His work undernoted contains no ornithological 
matter of importance, that on pp. 30, 130, 131 being derived 
from Carew and Borlase. 
1823. Topographical | and | Historical Sketches | of the | Boroughs | of | 
East and West Looe, | . . . . London : | . . . 1823. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. iv + 308 + 8 “ Embellishments.” 
Bonhote (John Lewis), nat. 1875 
Mr. Bonhote was born in London in 1875, and educated 
first at Elstree School and then at Harrow. He entered 
