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 Rev. 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.