THE 



NATURAL HISTORY 



IRELAND. 



VOL. III. 



BIRDS, 



COMPRISING THE ORDER 



NATATORES 



Wm. THOMPSON, Esq., 



President of the Natural Ilistoiy and Plillosophical Society of Belfast, Corresponding Member 



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



Philadelphia, &c., &c. 



LONDON: 

 REEVE AND BENHAM, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 



1851. 



