380 THE JACK SNIPE. 
and projecting more than a quarter of an inch beyond the 
longest of the others. 
SNIPE OCCUR all over the world, and besides the five species 
dealt with, and the two (szajor and megala) referred to above, 
at least a dozen others occur in Africa, North and Sout 
America, Madagascar, Australia, New Zealand (Chatham 
Islands), the Auckland Islands, &c. 
