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Figures : Temminck and Sclilcgcl, Fauna Japonica, Avcs, pi. G4 

 (summer and winter plumage). 



The Japanese Knot, so called because it was originally discovered 

 in Japan, is only a spring and autumn visitor on migration to the 

 islands whose name it bears. I have an example obtained by 

 Mr. Snow on the Kurile Islands. It was first obtained in Yezzo in 

 October 1857, by Dr. Henderson (Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. 

 Philad. 1858, p. 196), and afterwards in 1861 (Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, 

 p. 330), and there are seven examples in the Pryer collection from 

 Yokohama. 



The Japanese Knot probably breeds somewhere in Eastern Siberia. 



336. TRINGA CANUTUS. 



(KNOT.) 



Tringa eamitus, Linueus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 251 (1766). 



Four of the cleft-toed Sandpipers have the ground-colour of the 

 upper tail-coverts white. Tw^o of these are smaller birds (wing from 

 carpal joint less than 5^ inches), but the third, the Japanese Knot, 



Tringa canutus. 



is larger (wing 7'6 to 7 inches, instead of 6"8 to 6*2 inches ; bill 

 from frontal feathers 1'8 to 1'6, instead of 1*5 to 1"1 inch). 

 Figures : Dresser, Birds of Europe, viii. pis. 555, 556. 



