180 The Mammalia of Essex. 



I have had no opportunity for comparing a list of the 

 Faunas of the adjoining counties, excepting that of Norfolk, 

 by the Kev. Richard Lubbock, published in 1845, and he 

 records only thirty-four mammals ; but the authors of the 

 last edition of Bell's 'British Quadrupeds' describe a total of 

 seventy-three as occurring in the British Islands. Consider- 

 ing the cultivated and enclosed condition of many parts of 

 Essex, I think the catalogue of forty mammals compares 

 very well with the list for the whole of Britain, especially 

 when we remember that several cetaceans and seals are in 

 all probability only absent by reason of deficient observation, 

 and may be eventually recorded as members of the Essex 

 Fauna when more attention is paid to the scientific study of 

 our Mammalia. 



