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STRAY NATURE-NOTES 



FOR many years Mr. Morris was a frequent contri- 

 butor to the pages of the Naturalist. His name 

 appears as early as 1837 m connection with a paper 

 he wrote on the nomenclature of British Orni- 

 thology, a subject which, from his frequent re- 

 ference to it, seems to have had for him a more than 

 ordinary interest. Among others whose articles or 

 notes find place in the same volume may be men- 

 tioned that of his old friend Mr. J. C. Dale, whose 

 knowledge of all matters bearing on entomology 

 was so remarkable, of whom a word presently, to- 

 gether with that of Mr. William Macgillivray, the 

 well-known and reliable authority on British birds. 

 Among other topics on which Mr. Morris wrote in 

 this year were " Migratory Birds," " Arrivals of Birds," 

 " Scarcity of the House Sparrow near Doncaster," 

 " A Chapter on the Varieties of Animals," " On the 

 Value of Faunas," "An Explanation of the Latin 

 Names of British Birds," " Sense of Smell in Carrion 

 Birds," " Notice on the Discovery of a New Insect," 

 "The Note of the Corn-Crake." On the last-named 

 of these he remarked : " Mr. Bree says that he likes 



the harsh scream of the Swift almost as well as the 



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