22 2 CATALOGUE OF BIRDS. 



estuaries and "mud-flats and sand-banks in spring 

 and autumn ;" also that " birds in the red breeding- 

 plumage occur in the south on the spring migration, 

 especially in Norfolk, where, from the date of their 

 arrival, the 1 2th of May is called by the Breydon 

 gunners ' Godwit Day '." 



I met with these birds in the south of Ireland, in 

 the winter, when out one day with Michael Casey 

 and his punt. The operations after Duck with 

 Casey have been so fully described elsewhere that it 

 is unnecessary to say anything more than that the 

 specimens in the case were shot with a punt-gun on 

 one of these expeditions in 1893-4, and that being 

 in their winter plumage of ashen-grey, they present 

 a very different appearance from what they would 

 have done in their spring dress, which comprises 

 many combinations of chestnut, red -browns, and 

 black. 



The Knot, 

 Family, Scolopacidcs. 



This, like the Bar-tailed Godwit, is another 

 species of which I have no practical knowledge 

 beyond meeting with it in the winter in the south of 

 Ireland. 



From ornithological books it appears that these 

 birds are migratory only ; that their arrival from the 

 north may be expected about August ; that the 

 adults are often preceded by young immature birds, 

 which are surprisingly tame and unsophisticated on 



