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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
85 
1905. Nature-Tones and Under-Tones. Sketches of Life in the Open. 
Illustrated by photographs from Nature. Manchester : 1905. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. viii + pp. 233, with 16 pi. (Pub. 
6s. net.) 
1909. British Birds and their Eggs, with a New Method of Identification 
with 136 coloured illustrations. London and Edinburgh (W. & 
R. Chambers, Ltd.) : 1909. 
Collation — 1 vol. cr. 8vo, pp. 301, ill. (Pub. 6s. net.) 
.Bo reman (Thomas) 
We ascribe the undernoted work to this writer on the 
authority of the British Museum Catalogue. There were a 
number of editions of the work, which contains a considerable 
section on birds, chiefly British. A MS. note on the title of the 
British Museum copy states that Boreman was a bookbinder, 
but the imprint shows him to have been also a bookseller. 
*1730. [Anonymous.] A | Description | Of Three Hundred | Animals ; 
| viz. | Beasts, | Birds | Eishes, | Serpents, | and | Insects. | 
With | A Particular Account of the Whale-Eishery. | Extracted 
out of the Best Authors, and adapt- | ed to the Use of all Capaci- 
ties ; especially to allure Children to Read. | Illustrated with 
Copper Plates. [Etc.] | London | Printed by J. T. for Rich. 
Ware at the Bible and Sun in Amen Corner, Thos. Boreman 
the Corner of St. Clement’s Lane without Temple Bar &c. 
M.DCC.XXX. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. viii un. + pp. 212, front, and 
numerous pi. (paged in). 
Birds at pp. 70-147, with 113 figs., of which about 87 are British. 
Idem. 2nd to 6th edits. Not seen. 
Idem. 7th edit. 1753. 1 vol. 12mo. 
Idem. Another edit. Chiswick : 1826. 2 vols. 18mo. 
Published under the name of Mrs. Mary Trimmer, but it is 
merely a new edition of the above work. 
Borlase (William), 1695-1772 
Borlase, the natural historian and antiquary of Cornwall, 
was born at Pendean, Cornwall, on February 2 , 1695 , and 
was the son of John Borlase, M.P. for St. Ives. He was 
educated first at a school in Penzance, removed thence to 
Plymouth in 1709 , and afterwards to Tiverton School. He 
entered Exeter College, Oxford, in March 1712 - 13 , took his 
