THE 
NATURAL HISTORY 
OF 
IRELAND. 
VOL. III. 
BIRDS, 
COMPRISING THE ORDER 
NATATORES. 
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 AND BENHAM, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN. 
1851. 
