72 PICTURE OP ORGANIZED NATURE. 



dice, and Ch. obscurus, live in New-Zealand ; and 

 Ch. fulvus in Otaheite. 



16. Snipes and Plovers (Scolopax) appear to be 

 peculiar to the Northern Hemisphere, although not 

 exclusively : they prefer the Cold and Temperate 

 regions. Several of them are found far to the North ; 

 for instance, our Snipe (S. rusticola) breeds in Ice- 

 land, Kamtchatka, and Russia. The common Snipe 

 (S. gallinago) is found as high as the Polar Circle. 

 The Lapland Snipe inhabits the country from which 

 it takes its name; the Pool-Snipe, Iceland and 

 Greenland. 



17. The Ibis (Tantalus), which is related to the 

 Snipes, is rather numerous in 'warm countries, and 

 hardly extends beyond the warmer part of the Tem- 

 perate Zone. 



18. Sandpipers (Tringa) are diffused in a simi- 

 lar manner to the Snipes. Our Lapwing (T. va- 

 nellus), and the Ruff (T.pugnax), are met with 

 in Iceland also. Besides those, there are in Iceland, 

 T. ochropus, T. maritima, T. uniformis, T. striata. 

 Tringa borealis, and T. variegata, are found in King 

 George's Sound ; T. alpina, in Greenland, Iceland, 

 and the Siberian Alps. About twenty-two species 

 of this Genus are also natives of Germany. 



