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Grurney, Esq. states that specimens of .the Knot in its 

 nuptial dress frequently occur on the Norfolk coast in 

 spring, during the northward migration of this species, 

 but during the month of May they were, for a few 

 days, unusually numerous, particularly about the 13th, 

 on which day a single gunner at Yarmouth procured 

 seventy-three Knots, all in full, or nearly full summer 

 dress, besides several otliers which were obtained by other 

 individuals. 



The Editor of the Zoologist records that he had been 

 shown a specimen of the Knot, quite white, that had been 

 shot near Maldon, in Essex, in February, 1851. 



M. Temminck says the Knot is seen in spring and 

 autumn in Holland, but that it is rare in Germany, France, 

 and the more southern portions of Europe, and is seen, but 

 very rarely, at Sicily and Malta. I am unable to trace it 

 as going to the eastward, but Mr. Blyth has obtained it in 

 the vicinity of Calcutta. 



A male in perfect summer plumage obtained from Yar- 

 mouth so late in the season as the 25th of May, 1820, and 

 from which the figure in the front of the illustration here 

 given was drawn, has the beak black ; the irides hazel ; 

 cheeks and round the eye chestnut red, with a few dark 

 brown spots between the beak and the eye, and on the 

 ear-coverts ; the forehead, top of the head, and the back of 

 the neck, reddish brown, streaked with dark brown ; back, 

 scapulars, smaller wing-coverts, and tertials, black, margined 

 with reddish brown and white ; greater wing-coverts ash 

 grey ; primaries greyish black, with white shafts ; second- 

 aries edged with white; rump and upper tail-coverts 

 white, tinged with red, with crescentic bars of black and 

 edged with white ; tail-feathers ash colour, darker near the 

 margin, and edged with white ; chin, neck, breast, and 

 belly, nearly uniform rich reddish chestnut ; flanks, vent, 



