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James Edmund Fotheringham Harting
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English ornithologist and conservationist; librarian and assistant secretary of the Linnean Society. Best known under the name 'James Edmund Harting.'

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This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "J. E. H."

345293Q6133323James Edmund Fotheringham HartingJames Edmund FotheringhamHartingJames Edmund HartingEnglish ornithologist and conservationist; librarian and assistant secretary of the Linnean Society. Best known under the name 'James Edmund Harting.'

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This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "J. E. H."

• The birds of Middlesex. A contribution to the natural history of the county (1866) (external scan)
• The Ornithology of Shakespeare: Critically Examined, Explained, and Illustrated (1871) (external scan)
• Hints on shore shooting; with a chapter on skinning and preserving birds (1871) (external scan)
• A handbook of British birds (1872) (external scan)
• Rambles in Search of Shells, Land and Freshwater (1875) (external scan)
• The fauna of the Prybilov Islands (1875) (external scan)
• Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer in the British Islands (1877) (external scan)
• —— (1880). British Animals Extinct Within Historic Times: with Some Account of British Wild White Cattle. London: Trübner & Co.  (external scan) (BHL).

Edition Boston : J.R. Osgood & Co (1880): (external scan)

• Essays on sport and natural history (1883) (external scan)
• —— (1884). Hints on the Management of Hawks. London: Horace Cox, "The Field" Office.  (external scan) (second expanded edition: Harting 1898)
• Bibliotheca Accipitraria (1891) (external scan)
• The rabbit; with a chapter on Cookery (1898) (external scan)
• —— (1898). Hints on the Management of Hawks (second edition), to which is added: Practical Falconry, chapters historical and descriptive. London: Horace Cox, "The Field" Office.  (external scan) (second expanded edition of Harting 1884)
• —— (1901). A Handbook of British Birds, Showing the Distribution of the Resident and Migratory Species in the British Islands, with an Index to the Records of the Rarer Visitants. London: John C. Nimmo.  (external scan) (external scan)
• "Yarrell, William," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.

James Edmund Harting was editor of The Zoologist from 1877 to 1896:

• 3rd series, volume1 (1877) (transcription project)
• 3rd series, volume2 (1878) (transcription project)
• 3rd series, vol3 (1879)
• 3rd series, vol4 (1880)
• ...
• 3rd series, vol 19 (1895) (external scan)
• 3rd series, vol 20 (1896) (external scan)

Apart from many unsigned contributions as the editor, Harting also contributed:

• (1877). "On the Occurence for the First Time in England of the American Red-breasted Thrush (Turdus migratorius)". The Zoologist. 3 1 (issue 1, January): 14–17. 
• —— (1877). "Rabbits Breeding above Ground". The Zoologist. 3 1 (issue 1, January—section 'Occasional Notes'): 18. 
• —— (1877). "Rooks Attacking Acorns". The Zoologist. 3 1 (issue 1, January—section 'Occasional Notes'): 21–22. 
• —— (1877). "Tree Sparrow Nesting in Middlesex". The Zoologist. 3 1 (issue 1, January—section 'Occasional Notes'): 24. 
• Jeitteles, J.H. (1877). translation: Ullman, P.D. & . "On the Geographical Distribution of the Fallow Deer Past and Present". The Zoologist. 3 1 (issue 3, March): 81–89. 
• "Ed." (1877). "Hybrid between the English Hare and the Scotch Hare". The Zoologist. 3 1 (issue 3, March—section 'Occasional Notes'): 101. 
• —— (1877). "Wild Fowl Preservation". The Zoologist. 3 1 (issue 4, April, March): 167–172. 
• —— (1877). "Passenger Pigeon in Yorkshire". The Zoologist. 3 1 (issue 4, April, March—section 'Occasional Notes'): 180. 
• "The Editor" (1877). "On the Former Nesting of the Spoonbill in the County of Sussex". The Zoologist. 3 1 (issue 10, October): 425–429. 
• —— (1877). "On the Occurrence of the Hobby in Ireland". The Zoologist. 3 1 (issue 11, November): 471–472. 
• —— (1877). "On the Occurrence in England of Dutrochet's Land Leech, Trochetia subviridis". The Zoologist. 3 1 (issue 12, December): 515–523. 

• (1878). "Scarcity of the Corn Crake". The Zoologist. 3 2 (issue 14, February—section 'Occasional Notes'): 59. 
• "The Editor" (1878). "The Land and Freshwater Mollusca of Sussex". The Zoologist. 3 2. ; published in three parts:
  • —— (1878). "first part". The Zoologist. 3 2 (issue 15, March): 84–94. 
  • —— (1878). "continued". The Zoologist. 3 2 (issue 16, April): 122–126. 
  • —— (1878). "concluded". The Zoologist. 3 2 (issue 17, May): 161–168. 
• "The Editor" (1878). "The Falconry Club". The Zoologist. 3 2 (issue 15, March—section 'Occasional Notes'): 103–104. 
• (1878). "Goats eating Yew-leaves". The Zoologist. 3 2 (issue 17, May—section 'Occasional Notes'): 177–178. 
• —— (1878). "Former Nesting of the Kite in London". The Zoologist. 3 2 (issue 18, June—section 'Occasional Notes'): 215. 
• —— (1878). "An Old List of Lincolnshire Birds". The Zoologist. 3 2 (issue 18, June—section 'Occasional Notes'): 219–220. 
• —— (1878). "Hunting the Wild Cat". The Zoologist. 3 2 (issue 19, July—section 'Occasional Notes'): 251–252. 
• —— (1878). "Cattle eating Yew". The Zoologist. 3 2 (issue 19, July—section 'Occasional Notes'): 253. 
• —— (1878). "Snow Geese in Ireland". The Zoologist. 3 2 (issue 24, December—section 'Occasional Notes'): 453–454. 
• —— (1878). "A Hen swimming". The Zoologist. 3 2 (issue 24, December—section 'Occasional Notes'): 454. 

• —— (1897). "Dogs of Draught in Belgium". The Zoologist. 4th series, vol 1 (issue 667, January—section 'Notes and Queries'): 33–34. 

• "Obituary: James Edmund Harting," in The Times (1928)
• review of Harting 1898, in The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 2 (1898), issue 683—May, p. 228
• review of Harting 1901, in: The Zoologist, 4th series, vol 2 (1898), issue 720—June, p. 231–232