MILLER CHRISTY’S “Birds of Essex,” issued in 1891 as 
Volume II. of the Club’s “Special Memoirs,” ite will afford 
a complete and valuable guide to the Vertebrate Fauna of 
the County of Essex. 
Dr. HENRY LAVER has for many years made a special 
study of this subject. He has compiled this work with 
great care and after extensive research. The Council 
of the Club confidently believes that the volume will take 
rank beside CLARKE and ROEBUCK’S “ Vertebrata of York- 
shire,” MACPHERSON’S “Lakeland,” and other leading county 
faunas. 
The “(Mammafe, Reptifes, and Fishes of Esser ” 
will be published in demy octavo form (uniform with the 
other publications of the Club), well printed on very superior 
paper, and handsomely bound in scarlet cloth. It will extend 
to about 150 pages. The Illustrations, which constitute a 
prominent feature of the work, are from original drawings by 
Major BALE, of Colchester, and Mr. H. A. COLE, of Buckhurst 
Hill. They represent some of the more interesting species 
and their haunts in the county. 
After publication (which will be effected through Messrs. 
DURRANT. & Co., of Chelmsford, as well as through the 
Club) the price of the volume will be 10/6 nett; but 
subscribers who send in their names on the accompanying 
