THE 



NATURAL HISTORY 



IRELAND. 



VOL. II. 



BIRDS, 



COMPRISING THE ORDERS 



RASORES & GRALLATORES. 



Wm. THOMPSON, Esq., 



President of the Natural History and Philosophical Society of Belfast, Corresponding Memher 



of the Nat. Hist. Society of Boston, U.S. ; of the Academy of Natural Sciences, 



Philadelphia, &c, &c. 



LONDON: 



REEVE, BENHAM, AND REEVE, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND. 



1850. 



