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saxifrages. The note of this bird during its sojourn 
on our coasts is a shrill wz¢, but this is not very 
frequently or persistently uttered. 
During winter the Sanderling is a great wanderer, 
visiting parts of Africa, Southern Asia, Australia, 
and South America, but in the breeding season its 
range seems confined to the Arctic regions. But 
very little is known of the nesting habits of the 
Sanderling, and few of its eggs are in collections. 
It is said to arrive at its Arctic haunts in May or 
early June, as soon as the water is free from ice, 
and the ground bare of snow. Its nesting haunts 
are the barren grounds and tundras near, and the 
beaches of, the Arctic Ocean. The nest is a mere 
hollow, scantily lined with dry grass and leaves, 
and the four eggs are buffish-olive in ground colour, 
mottled and spotted with pale olive-brown and gray. 
KNOT. 
This species, the Z7inga canutus of Linnzus, 
and most modern ornithologists, is another of the 
Arctic migrants that pass the British coasts 
regularly on their journeys, and linger here in much 
smaller numbers over the winter. Camden, in 1607, 
appears to have been the first author to connect 
the name of the Knot with King Canute, but much 
difference of opinion exists as to the reason thereof. 
Some authorities assert that it was in connection 
with the story of that king upon the seashore; 
others, and perhaps with greater reason, because of 
