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parts, pure white ; between the bill and the eye a brown streak ; sides of 

 the breast reddish, mixed with cinereous brown ; nape and sides of the 

 neck cinereous and brown : back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, dusky 

 brown ; the feathers on the upper part of the back broadly edged with 

 red, the scapulars with yellowish white; wing-coverts with a narrow 

 edging of yellowish red: two middle tail-feathers dusky, edged with 

 reddish ash: the others edged with white." TEMM. (Egg.) Reddish 

 white ground, spotted and speckled with dark red brown : long. diam. 

 one inch one line and a half; trans, diam. nine lines. 



Like the last, a rare and occasional visitant. Habits similar. Sup- 

 posed to retire northward to breed. 



210. T. Canutus, Linn. (Knot.) Bill straight, a 

 little longer than the head, very much dilated at the tip : 

 tail even at the extremity : a small part of the tibia naked. 



T. cinerea, Temm. Man. d'0rn. torn. n. p. 627. Knot and Ash- 

 coloured Sandpiper, Mont. Orn. Diet, ty Supp. Knot, Selb. Illust. 

 vol. ii. p. 138. pi. 27. f. 2, 3, & 4. 



DIMENS. Entire length ten inches: length of the bill (from the fore- 

 head) one inch four lines ; of the tarsus one inch two lines ; of the tail 

 two inches six lines; from the carpus to the end of the wing six inches 

 three lines. 



DE SCRIPT. (Winter plumage.) Crown of the head, hind part of the 

 neck, back, and scapulars, light ash-gray, with the shafts of the feathers 

 darker ; wing-coverts the same, but tipped with white, forming a trans- 

 verse bar : from the bill to the eye a dusky streak ; over the eye a white 

 one; forehead, throat, and all the under parts, white; sides and front 

 of the neck longitudinally streaked with brown ; breast and flanks with 

 transverse bars of cinereous brown : rump and upper tail-coverts white, 

 with transverse crescent-shaped black bars: tail-feathers cinereous, edged 

 with white: bill and legs blackish gray: irides hazel. (Summer plumage.) 

 Throat, eye-streak, sides and fore part of the neck, breast, belly, and 

 flanks, ferruginous brown : crown of the head, and nape, ferruginous, 

 with small longitudinal black streaks; back and scapulars deep black, 

 all the feathers edged with bright ferruginous; on the scapulars some 

 large spots of the same colour : abdomen white, mixed with ferruginous : 

 upper tail-coverts white, barred with black and spotted with ferruginous : 

 tail dusky ash, the feathers edged with whitish. (Young of the year, 

 before the first moult.) Crown of the head, and nape, ash-gray, with 

 large brown spots longitudinally disposed; back and scapulars deep 

 cinereous gray, all the feathers with a double edging of black and 

 yellowish white, the latter colour being outermost : a brown streak 

 between the bill and the eye; breast with a faint tinge of reddish 

 gray : bill greenish gray : legs greenish yellow : in other respects like 

 the adult in winter. (Egg.) Pale yellowish olive, blotched and spotted 

 with two shades of dark red brown : long. diam. one inch eight lines ; 

 trans, diam. one inch one line and a half. 



A winter visitant, arriving in September and departing in April. Fre- 

 quents the coast in large flocks ; and, during certain parts of the year, 

 inland fens and marshy districts. Retires northward to breed. Said to 

 lay four eggs on a tuft of withered grass. Food, worms, marine insects, 

 and small bivalve mollusca. 



