. Young folk's illustrated book of birds : with numerous original, instructive and amusing anecdotes . ern; being only found in thetemperate and frigid zones of the southern hemisphere. Itresembles the former in almost all its habits : walkingerect, 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 inan erect position; and cackle like geese, but in a hoarsertone. The most remarkable kind is the Crested Penguin,which inhabits several of the South Sea islands, and whichM sometimes
. Young folk's illustrated book of birds : with numerous original, instructive and amusing anecdotes . ern; being only found in thetemperate and frigid zones of the southern hemisphere. Itresembles the former in almost all its habits : walkingerect, 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 inan erect position; and cackle like geese, but in a hoarsertone. The most remarkable kind is the Crested Penguin,which inhabits several of the South Sea islands, and whichM sometimes called the Hopping Penguin, or JumpingJack, from the circumstance of its leaping quite out of thewater, sometimes to the height of three or four feet, whenit meets an obstacle in its course. THE SNIPE. (Scolopax WOttmii.) Tem Snipe of North America, so nearly related to that ofEurope, is found according to the season, in every pariof the continent, from Hudsons Bay to Cayenne, and doesnot appear indeed sufficiently distinct from the BnudlianBnipe of Swainson, which inhabits abundantly the whole of. Snipe. THB SNIPS. 186 Boath America as far as Chili. Many winter in the marshefland inundated river-grounds of the Southern States ofthe Union, where they are seen in the month of February,frequenting springs and boggy thickets; others proceedalong the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, and eyen penetrateinto the equatorial regions. , By the second week in March, they begin to revisit themarshes, meadows, and low grounds of the Middle States,and soon after they arrive in New England. In mild andcloudy weather, towards evening, and until the last rays ofthe setting sun have disappeared from the horizon, we hearjas in the north or Europe, the singular tremulous murmur*ings of the Snipes, making their gyratory rounds so high inthe air as scarcely to be visible to the sight. This hum-ming, or rather flickering and somewhat wailing sound,has a great similarity to the booming of the night-hawk;b
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