184 THB SNIPS 



There is another bird of this desoription, called tht 

 Penguin, of which there are several varieties, which seemi 

 Co hold the same place in the southern parts of the world, 

 that the Auks do in the northern ; being only found in the 

 temperate and frigid zones of the southern hemisphere. It 

 resembles the former in almost all its habits : walking 

 erect, and being very stupid : it also resembles it in colour, 

 shortness of wings, rapidity of swimming, mode of feeding, 

 and of making its nest. These birds hatch their young in 

 an erect position ; and cackle like geese, but in a hoarser 

 tone. The most remarkable kind is the Crested Penguin, 

 which inhabits several of the South Sea islands, and which 

 M sometimes called the Hopping Penguin, or Jumping 

 Jack, from the circumstance of its leaping quite out of the 

 water, sometimes to the height of three or four feet, when 

 it meets an obstacle in its course. 



THE SNIPE. (Scolopax WOttmii.) 



Tem Snipe of North America, so nearly related to that of 

 Europe, is found according to the season, in every pari 

 of the continent, from Hudson's Bay to Cayenne, and does 

 not appear indeed sufficiently distinct from the Bnudlian 

 Bnipe of Swainson, which inhabits abundantly the whole of 



