354 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
TRINGA CANUTUS, Linneus. 
KNOT. 
This species is a regular and at times very numerous 
visitant to our coast, both in spring and autumn, and 
occasionally, if detained by a prevalence of north- 
easterly winds on its northward passage in May,* many 
beautirul specimens, in full summer plumage, are pro- 
cured, in company with godwits, turnstones, grey- 
plovers, and other migratory shore birds. This was 
particularly the case in the cold spring of 1853, which 
I have before noticed as a memorable season for our 
local. collectors; and at that time, between the 10th 
and 27th of May, an extraordinary number of red 
Knots from different parts of the coast were sent up to 
Norwich to be stuffed. On the 13th of May, as recorded 
by Mr. J. H. Gurney in the “ Zoologist” (p. 3946), “a 
single gunner, at Yarmouth, procured seventy-three 
knots all in full, or nearly full, summer dress, besides 
several others which were obtained by other indi- 
viduals.” On the 14th, nine were killed out of a flock 
of about a dozen, by a crow-keeper, on what was 
formerly Salthouse Broad, but then sown with wheat; 
and these, which I examined at the time, were almost 
all in their perfect nuptial dress. Between the 
14th and 19th, seventeen were received by one of our 
Norwich birdstuffers from Blakeney, and more inland 
localities in the “Broad” district, such as Hickling, 
Rockland, and Sutton; these birds, though essentially 
shore feeders, occasionally frequenting the land at 
some distance from the coast. Mr. Hunt speaks of 
them as sometimes met with “far inland;” and Mr. 
* The specimen from which the figure in Yarrell’s “ British 
Birds” was taken, was procured at Yarmouth on the 25th of 
May, 1820. 
