4 6* ASH COLORED SANDPIPER. Class II. 



three dozens of dales of wood painted like the 

 birds, placed within : fourteen dozens have been 

 taken at once. Their feafon is from the begin- 

 ning of Auguft to that of November. They difap- 

 pear with the firft frofls. Camden * fays they de- 

 rive their name from king Canute, Knute, or Knout, 

 as he is fometimes called •, probably becauie they 

 were a favorite dim with that monarch. We know 

 that he kept the feaft of the purification of the 

 Virgin Mary with great pomp and magnificence at 

 Ely, and this being one of the fen birds, it is not 

 unlikely but he met with it there f. Shakefpear 

 in his Othello, fpeaking of Roderigo (if Mr. Theo- 

 bald's reading isjuft) makes the Knot an emblem 

 of a dupe : 



«' I have rubb'd this young Knot almofl to the fenfe ; 

 «' And he grows angry." Othello. 



194. Ash Tringa cinerca. Brunnicb, Braun und Weisibunter Sand- 

 Colored. ov7iith. 53. IceurTeff ? Frifch, II. 237. 



Br. Zffol. 124. 



Descrip. >TpHIS fpecies weighs five ounces: the length is 



•*■ ten inches : the breadth nineteen : the head 



is of a brownifh afh color, fpotted with black : the 



* Camden Brit. 97 1. 



f Dugdale on embanking^ 185. 



whole 



