* CENTRAL PARK, *' 

 ^18^-WYORK. a. 



TRINGA CANUTUS. THE ASH-COLOURED SAND- 

 PIPER OR KNOT. 



GREY SANDPIPER. RED-BREASTED SANDPIPER. RED SANDPIPER. 



Fig. 17, 



Tringa Canutus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 251. Adult in Winter. 



Tringa Canutus. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 738. Adult in Winter. 



Tringa islandica. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. Addenda. Adult in Summer. 



Tringa islandica. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 737. Adult in Summer. 



Red Sandpiper. Mont. Orn. Diet. Summer. 



Knot. Mont. Orn. Diet. Winter. 



Sandpiper, Ash-coloured. Mont. Orn. Diet. Young. 



Becasseau Canut ou Maubeche. Tringa cinerea. Temni. Man. d'Orn. II. 627. 



Tringa Canutus. Knot. Flem. Brit. Anim. 109. 



Tringa cinerea. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 733. Young. 



Tringa grisea. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 733. Adult in Winter. 



Tringa noevia. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 732. In moult. 



Knot. Tringa Canutus. Selby, Illustr. II. 138. 



Tringa Canutus. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 213. 



Tringa Canutus. Bonap. Conip. List. 49. 



Bill straight, a little longer than the head, its tip con- 

 siderably dilated ; tail even; tarsus an inch and two-twelfths 

 long. In winter the plumage ash-grey above, tohite beneath, 

 the neck and sides streaked icith dusky. In summer the back 

 glossy black, variegated with yellowish-red ; the fore neck and 

 breast yellowish-red. The young grey above, each feather on 

 the back with a double marginal band of black and white. 



