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that it is an early migrant to the North. As in the case of 

 the Knot, it has not yet been observed in the PhiUppines, but 

 has nevertheless occurred in Java and Borneo, and is noted in 

 Dr. Ramsay's list from New Guinea. It is found along the 

 north coast of Australia, and is also recorded from Rockingham 

 and Wide Bays as well as from the coast of New South 

 Wales, but does not seem to have been met with either in 

 Victoria or South Australia, though it finds a place among 

 the birds of West Australia. 



Returning to Asia we have the remarkable fact that of 

 late years this species has been found as far west as Kurrachee 

 Harbour (Sindh) where Mr. A. O. Hume, the indefatigable 

 Indian Ornithologist procured it in February, 1871. It was 

 common there in that month and was also observed at Gwader. 

 Subsequently it was procured at Port Blair, on the Andaman, 

 by Captain Wardlaw Ramsay, in January, 1872; these three 

 localities being the only places in the Indian Empire where it 

 has been met with. Its occurrence on the west coast of India, 

 not as a straggler, but in considerable numbers in company 

 with other cold-weather visitants to the country, indicates the 

 probability of the existence of some Central-Asian or 

 Mongolian breeding-place from which these birds had 

 migrated southwards via Turkestan, and is a most interesting- 

 point in the history of the species. The Andaman Island 

 birds spoken of were probably outliers in that particular 

 season from the migatory stream down the China coast to 

 the Malay Archipelago, and their location there is not nearly 

 so remarkable as that of their fellows in Sindh. 



13. Tringa canutus. 



(Knot.) 



Tringa canutus^ Linn, Sys. Nat., Ed. 2, p. 251, (1776) ; Gould, 

 Handb. B. of Austr., ii., p. 259, (1865) ; Ramsay, List Austr. 

 B., p. 20, (1888). 



The occurrence of the Knot in Australia is another instance 

 of a western species wandering far wide of its usual migratory 

 path. It is recorded by Gould as having been first shot at 

 Moreton Bay in the month of September, and subsequently 

 Dr. Ramsay has entered it in the Victorian and South Aus- 

 tralian hsts. Again, strangely enough, it has, according to 

 Buller, occurred in both islands of New Zealand. In view 

 of the fact that this species is very rare in India and has not 

 been recorded from the Malay Archipelago, while on the 

 other hand it has been met with on the north coast of China 



