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axillary plume white; vent, flanks and under tail- 
coverts reddish white, barred and spotted with 
black; under surface of the tail-feathers greyish 
white; legs and toes greenish black.” * 
During the autumnal moult the bird assumes a 
different appearance, part of each plumage being 
then visible, occasional white feathers being mixed 
with the red of the under parts, and the ash-grey 
feathers of the back appearing amongst the dark 
ones: in this state of plumage specimens frequently 
occur. The young birds of the year in their first 
autumn have the neck ash-grey; the feathers of the 
back, scapulars, wing-coverts and tertials are dark 
brown, margined with reddish buff, which latter, as 
the winter approaches, changes slowly to ash-colour, 
with buffy white and ultimately pure white edges; 
the under surface of the body is white, tinged with 
red, becoming afterwards pure white. 
Yarrell says, on the authority of Temminck, that 
the eggs are yellowish white, spotted with dark 
brown. 
Knot, Tringa Canutus. The Knot is not un- 
common on our coasts during the winter, but 1s by 
no means so numerous as many of the other 
Waders, and I do not know that it occurs at any 
other season, as I have never seen a specimen froin 
our county at all in its summer plumage: it is, 
* Yarrell, vol. i1., p. 54. 
