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rump, upper tail-coverts and two centre tail-feathers blackish 

 brown ; tail pale brownish white with white shafts ; forehead 

 and under surface white ; sides of the breast spotted with 

 dark brown, and stained with rusty red in the centre ; irides 

 brownish black ; bill blackish brown ; tarsi and feet olive- 

 brown. 



The winter plumage is similar, but much paler, and entirely 

 destitute of the red markings ; the spottings of the sides of 

 the breast are also much less extensive. 



Genus TRINGA, Linnceus. 



The Knot of Europe is the type of this genus, and with 

 that species may be associated the T. tenuirostris, although it 

 differs from it in the colouring of the summer plumage. 



Sp. 525. TRINGA CANUTQS, Linnceus. 



Knot. 



Tringa canufus, Linn. Syst. Nat., torn. i. p. 251. 



cinerea, Gmel. edit. Linn. Syst. Nat., torn. i. p. 673. 



calidris, Linn. Syst. Nat., torn. i. p. 252. 



ruevia, Gmel. edit. Linn. Syst. Nat., torn. i. p. 681. 



grisea, Gmel. lb., p. 681. 



ferruginea, Meyer.Tasclienb. Dent., tom. ii. p. 395. 



islandica, Gmel. edit. Linn. Syst. Nat., tom. i. p. 682. 



Calidris canutus, Gould, Birds of Eur., vol. iv. pi. 324. 



Of this well-known British bird I have undoubted examples 

 from Moreton Bay, whence they were sent by Strange. The 

 fact of its being found in Australia need not surprise us when 

 we take into consideration its great wing-powers, and how 

 widely it is distributed throughout Europe and North Ame- 

 rica. Curiously enough, however, it is so seldom met with 

 in India that it is regarded as one of the rarest of the birds 

 of that country. One of the specimens sent by Strange had 

 the under surface much suffused with red, with many new 



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