12 THE MAMMALS, REPTILES, AND FISHES OF ESSEX.
Works (London and Norwich, 1835, 8vo, 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