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CHAPTER III. 



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Maltese Naturalists. Wild animals. Marine Mammalia. 

 Domestic animals. Maltese Dogs. Tho Econornico-Agrarian 

 Society, 



AMONGST the careful observers of birds, beasts, 

 reptiles, and zoophytes may be mentioned Sig. 

 Antonio Schembri who in 1 Q 43 published a valuable 

 list of birds observed in Malta and Gozo, and in 

 January 1864 there appeared in the columns of the 

 Ibis a most careful and able enumeration of 253 

 different species by C. Wright Esqre., since which 

 time this eminent naturalist has added 14 others, 

 making a present total of 267 species. W. C. P. 

 Medlicott. Esqre., W. Grant Esqre., Dr. A. L. Adams, 

 the Revd. H. Seddall, Dr. Gavino Gulia, Sig. G. 

 Marno, Sig. Gaetano Trapani, Dr. A. A. Caruana, 

 Mr. Davidson, and others have also studied the 

 Maltese fauna, and the student of Natural History is 

 referred to their works which can be obtained from 

 the local libraries and booksellers. 



