V 
THE 
NATURAL HISTORY 
OF 
IRELAND. 
VOL. I. 
BIRDS, 
COMPRISING THE ORDERS 
RAPTORES & INSESSORES. 
BY 
Wm. THOMPSON, Esq., 
President of the Natural History and Philosophical 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, BENI-I AM, AND REEVE, KING WILLIAM STREET, STRAND. 
1849 
