PREFACE. 



THE advantages of Local Lists, and the vital 

 importance of such to all persons desiring to 

 study the geographical distribution of animals, are so 

 apparent that I feel no apology is needed for the 

 publication of this Catalogue of the Vertebrate 

 Fauna of Essex, excluding the Birds. No attempt 

 towards the formation of such a catalogue for this 

 county has previously been made, with the single 

 exception of a list compiled by myself, and published 

 in the Transactions of the Epping Forest and County of 

 Essex Naturalists' Field Club (vol. ii. , 1882, pp. 157-1 80). 

 The list referred to, incomplete as it was, and confined 

 to the Mammajian Fauna only, has been found of 

 considerable use by others (if I may judge by the 

 number of references to it), and is incorporated in the 

 present volume. 



The present work and Mr. Miller Christy's Birds 

 of Essex, published by the Essex Field Club in 1891, 

 together form a complete catalogue of the Vertebrate 

 Fauna of the County. 



