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entirely absent, his only record being May i8, 1885. Mr Todd, in his Birds 

 of Erie, Pa., mentions 17 specimens taken on Lake Erie between August 7- 

 September 14, in the years 1893, 1895 and 1901. Few definite records 

 from the interior of New York have come to my attention. One was taken 

 at Penn Yan in October 1875 [Birds Cent. N. Y. p. 31], two in Saratoga 

 county in 1893 [A. S. Brower],two near Buffalo, September 16, 1893 [Savage, 

 Auk, 12:313] and one on Seneca river October 10, 1907 [Foster Parker]. 



Like the Yellow-legs, this species often wades in shallow water while 

 feeding, when flushed it "darts swiftly away with a sharp tweet, tweet." 

 [Gosse] 



Tringa canutus Linnaeus 

 Knot 



Plates 33, 34 



Tringa canutus Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. Ed. 10. 1758. i:i4Q 



DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 243, fig. 194, 218 

 A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. \o. 234 



tri'nga, Lat., sandpiper; canii'lus, pertaining to King Canute who is supposed 

 to have been very fond of this bird 



Description. A large stout sandpiper; bill longer than tarsus, straight, 

 flattened and enlarged at tip; tibia bare about half the length of tarsus; 

 tail nearly even. Summer: Upper parts brownish black, the feathers 

 broadly edged and tipped with grayish white and rufous; tail ashvgrav; rump 

 and upper tail coverts white barred icttli dusky white; wings grav, prin:aries 

 dusky; line over the e\'e and under parts in general rujous slightlv marked 

 with blackish on the sides; flanks and under tail coverts whitish marked 

 with dusky; bill and legs greenish black. Winter: Upper parts gray; 

 upper tail coverts white barred with duskx-; under parts white marked 

 with duskv on the breast and sides. Immature: L'jiper jiarts dark ash, 

 feathers tipped with whitish, with a subterminal edging of blackish; under 

 parts white, marked on the breast and sides with blackish. 



Length 10-11 inches; extent 20-21 ; wing 6.5-6.75; tail 2.7; liill 1.3-1.4; 

 tarsus 1.2; middle toe i , tibia bare .6. 



The Knot, Red-breasted sandpiper, Robin sni2)e,or Gra\'-back, breeds in 

 the arctic regions of both hemispheres and migrates along our coast and inland 

 waters, Avintering from the gulf coast to South America. It is one of the best 

 known beach birds on the south coast of Long Island , but lik^' all the shore birds 



