SCOLOPACIDZ—KNOT. 263 
CURLEW SANDPIPER. 
Tringa subarquata (Gii/Z). 
Adult (Summer): Face, streak over eye and throat 
white speckled with brown; feathers of crown and neck 
chestnut streaked with black and white; rump, upper and 
under tatl-coverts white, barred with black; tail ashy-grey with 
white shafts; wing-quills blackish with white shafts; greater 
coverts ashy-brown, margined with greyish-white ; rest of upper 
parts chestnut, barred with black ; beneath chestnut, shading 
on sides of body and at vent into reddish-white, where it 1s 
marked with black; J2// slightly decurved; \egs, feet and 
claws nearly black ; irides hazel-brown. Length 7°5 inches ; 
culmen 1°4; wing 4°8; tail 1°8; tarsus I°I. 
The adult female is slightly larger and has a longer bill. 
Adult (Winter): Above hair-brown, the centres of the 
feathers darker ; wings dark brown with pale margins; upper 
tail-coverts white; axillaries and under parts generally white, 
striated on sides of neck and breast with brown. 
Young after first moult: Neck ashy-grey with dusky 
mottlings ; upper parts generally dark brown with a distinct 
metallic gloss, the feathers narrowly margined with buff or 
whitish ; axillaries, chin, abdomen, upper and under tail- 
coverts white as in adult; breast, throat and sides of body 
more or less suffused with warm ochreous. 
Young (Winter): Have distinct pale margins to most 
feathers above. 
Distribution: Probably breeds in the Arctic regions. 
Found on most European coasts during migration, occurring 
in winter as far south as Cape Colony, India and Tasmania. 
Habitat: Very similar to that of Z: alpina. 
KNOT. VX 
Tringa canutus Linn. 
Adult (Summer): Crown and hind neck pale chestnut, 
the former thickly streaked with blackish ; dack, scapulars and 
tertiaries D/ack, spotted or broadly streaked wth pale chestnut 
