KNOT. 229 



TRINGA CANUTUS— Knot. 



The Knot, that called was Canntus Bird of old, 



Of that great King of Danes, liis name that still doth hold, 



His apetite to please, that farre and neere was sought, 



For him (as some have sayd) from Denmarke hither brought. 



J^RXXTOS—Poliiolbion, 25th Song. 



This bird has been very rarely met with in Herefordshire. 

 A Knot is recorded as having been killed at Dewsall, in 1879 ; and 

 the Rev. W. Baskerville Mynors met with one at Llanwarne, in 

 March, 1883. 



In the early part of the sixteenth century the Knot was very 

 highly esteemed as an article of diet. They were caught in nets, 

 and regularly fattened for the table. Willughby says that, " being 

 fed with white bread and milk, they grow very fat, and are accounted 

 excellent meat." Camden (1607). first gives the origin of the name 

 from Canute, which Willughby (1687) and later writers have adopted. 



[Genus — Machetes.] 

 [Machetes pugnax — Ruff.] 

 Only seen now on migration. 



[Genus — Calidris.] 



[Calidris arenaria — Sanderling.] 



Common in winter on the coasts of Britain. 



[Genus — Tryngites.] 



[Tryngites rufescens — Buff-breasted Sandpiper. 



A rare straggler to Britain. 



[Genus— AcTiTURUS.] 



[Actiturus longicauda — Bartram's Sandpiper.] 



\Bartramia longicauda — Yarrell^ 



A rare straggler to the British Islands. 



