Thomson] 
BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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John Templeton, Esq., Oranmore. (Charlesworth’s Mag. Nat. 
Hist. i. pp. 403-13.) 
1838. Notes on Irish Birds. (Ann. N.H. i. pp. 156-8.) 
Notes upon the Natural History of a portion of the South-West of 
Scotland. (Op. cit. ii. pp. 18-21.) 
1839. Zoological Notes on a few species obtained from the South-West of 
Scotland. (Op. cit. iii. pp. 585-7.) 
Note on the Effects of the hurricane of Jan. 7, 1839, in Ireland 
on some Birds, Fishes, etc. (T.c. pp. 182-5.) 
1840- 48. Additions to the Fauna of Ireland. (Op. cit. v., 1840, pp. 6-14 ; 
vii., 1841, pp. 477-82 ; xv., 1845, pp. 308-22 ; xviii., 1846, pp. 
310-15 ; xx., 1847, pp. 169-76 ; Ser. 2, i., 1848, pp. 62-5.) 
1841. Report on the Fauna of Ireland : Div. Vertebrata. (Rep. Brit. 
Assoc. Adv. Sci., 1840, pp. 353-409.) 
1841- 43. The Birds of Ireland. (Ann. and Mag. N.H. vii., 1841, pp. 
273-88; viii., 1841, pp. 353-60, 406-30, 486-502; ix., 1842, 
pp. 141-5, 221-30, 373-81 ; x., 1842, pp. 50-59, 171-9 ; xi., 1843, 
pp. 283-90 ; xii., 1843, pp. 31-8, 254-8.) 
1849. On the Physical and Geographical Distribution of the Birds of 
Ireland. (Edin. New Philos. Jour. xlvi. pp. 264-76.) 
1849-56. The | Natural History | of | Ireland. | — | Yol. I. [-IV.] | Birds, 
| [Vol. IV., Mammalia, etc.] | comprising the orders | [etc.] | — 
By | Wm. Thompson, Esq. | [etc. 3 lines.] | London : | Reeve, 
Benham and Reeve, King William Street, Strand. | — | 1849 
[-56.] 
Collation — 4 vols. 8vo. Yol. I., 1849 (Raptores and Inses- 
sores), portrait, + pp. xx, p. short title, +pp. 434. Vol. II., 1850 
(Rasores and Grallatores) , pp. xii+pp. 350. Vol. III., 1851 
(Natatores), pp. viii+pp. 492. Vol. IV., 1856 (Mammalia, 
Reptilia, Fishes and Invertebrata). 
1853. Supplementary Report on the Fauna of Ireland. (Rep. Brit. Assoc. 
Adv. Sci. for 1852, pp. 290-96.) 
Thomson (Arthur Landsborough), nat. 1890 
Mr. A. L. Thomson of Castleton House, Old Aberdeen, 
N.B., eldest son of Prof. J. Arthur Thomson ( vide infra), was 
born at Edinburgh, Oct. 8, 1890. He studied at the 
Universities of Heidelberg, Aberdeen, and Vienna ; graduated 
M.A. and B.Sc. at Aberdeen. He is a Fellow of the Boyal 
Physical Society (Edinburgh), and has been a member of 
the B.O.U. since 1911. He is best known by his Britain's 
Birds and their Nests described , illustrated with coloured 
