12 THE MAMMALS, REPTILES, AND FISHES OF ESSEX. 



Works (London and Norwich, 1835, 8 y > vol. iv., p. 325). 

 Charles John and James Paget published A Sketch of 

 the Natural History of Yarmouth (Yarmouth, 1834, 

 8vo) ; the Rev. Richard Lubbock included in his 

 widely-known Observations on the Fauna of Norfolk 

 (Norwich, 1845, 8vo) a list of the fresh-water fish of the 

 rivers and broads ; and Dr. John Lowe has published 

 (Trans. Norf. and Norwich Nat. Society ', 1874, p. 21) a 

 " List of Norfolk Fish," which included 143 species. 



Messrs. W. Eagle Clarke and W. D. Roebuck's 

 list of sea and river fish of Yorkshire, given in their 

 Handbook of the Vertebrate Fauna of Yorkshire (London, 

 1881), comprises 148 species. 



The only existing lists of the sea-fish of Essex are 

 those given by Dale in his History of Harwich 

 (2nd Ed., 1732), and by W. H. Lindsey (A Season at 

 Harwich, 1851), who mainly copies Dale. 



In the present catalogue, I propose, as stated, to 

 insert 113 species. This, in comparison with the larger 

 county, seems a fair proportion, especially when it is 

 remembered that Yorkshire has, as well as a muddy 

 and sandy shore, a considerable stretch of rocky coast. 

 Moreover, Messrs. Clarke and Roebuck have included 

 in their total some species considered by Dr. Day 

 to be varieties only, as well as all those taken on the 

 Doggerbank. In the present volume, only those 

 taken actually upon the coast, or within or on those 



