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NATURE NOTES. 
He was educated at Bromsgrove School — during which time 
his father’s present of a jay laid the foundation of his future 
collections — and at Worcester College, Oxford ; and, after hold- 
ing various ecclesiastical appointments, was appointed rector of 
Nunburnholme, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in 1854 — ^ 
post which he held until his death, and in which he has been 
succeeded by his son, the Rev. M. C. F. Morris, of whose Yorh- 
shin Folktalk, too long unnoticed, we hope to speak at an early 
date. By this time he had already become known as a writer 
on natural history. His Bible Natural History had appeared in 
1852, British Butterflies in 1853, and his British Birds, perhaps 
his most important work, was in progress, having been begun in 
1851. 
At Nunburnholme he found a congenial resting-place. 
“ He had lived in other agricultural parishes,” says Mr. Abram, “ but none of 
these was like unto this one, where the golden-crested wren, tiniest bird in 
Britain, could be seen perched upon the topmost festoons of the firs ; where the 
kingfisher darted and dived in the swift brook in the rectory garden, the ‘ brook 
without a name ’ of which Canon Wilton sings in his poems ; where the sun 
shone warm on the lawns, and the winter aconite clothed the turf beneath the 
beeches in the first saffron of spring, looking at a distance as if some one had 
come and flung upon the grass a bag of gold.” 
The Rectory, Nunburnholme. 
Our illustration shows the rectory, which has been thus 
described : — 
“ At the entrance of the valley of Nunburnholme is the rectory, with its 
cheerful, whitewashed front peeping out from the surrounding trees. The house, 
like most old country parsonages, bears traces of its successive occupants, in the 
additions which have been made from time to time to the original fabric ; but its 
variety of style makes it all the more picturesque. In front of it is a pretty 
garden, with lawn and flowers, and ornamental shrubs, and gravel walks ; but the 
