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table. Its eggs, which vary much in shape, are from 

 i-fg inches to i-^ inches by -^| inch to i inch wide, 

 and vary much in colour; one variety has the ground 

 pale blue-green, with spots of purple, umber, red-brown, 

 and purple-ash ; another has a cream-coloured ground, 

 with spots of raw umber and purple-ash ; others have 

 the ground yellowish with the same kind of spots, or 

 with the spots reddish-brown ; they vary much in form 

 and arrangement 



KNOT. 



The Knot (Tringa Canutus) comes to the fenny 

 districts from the Arctic regions, where it breeds in 

 the month of August. It was said to have been a 

 favourite article of food with our Danish king Canute, 

 of which the English name is a corruption. It is 

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