2 PRINCIPAL CONTENTS What Happened to Your Essex Naturalist David Corke Recording the Butterflies and Larger Moths of Essex Maitland Emmet The Fall and Rise of the Speckled Wood Butterfly in Essex Geoffrey Pyman Notes on the Identification of Deer in Essex Brian Eastcott Some Interesting Fungi from Epping Forest Geoffrey Kibby Essex Red Data Plants Ken Adams Report of the Bird Group 1982-1983 Martin Henry Reports of Meetings Cover by Joanna Foley Typing by Sheila Leswell