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Describing his efforts to find the eggs of this bird, Colonel Feilden ^vrites *: — 

 " Nijrht after nis^ht I passed out on the hills trying to find the nest of the Knot. 

 Not a day passed without my seeing them feeding in small flocks ; but they were 

 very wild, rising with shrill cries when one approached within a quarter of a mile 

 of the mud-flats on which they were feeding. It is very extraordinary, considering 

 the hundreds of miles traversed by myself and my companions, — all of us on the 

 look-out for this bird's eggs, and several of us experienced bird's-nesters, — that 

 we found no trace of its breeding until the young in down were discovered." 



* "Notes from an Arctic Journal," 'Zoologist,' 1871), p. 107. 



