KNOT. 



GRALLATORES. TRINGA. 



139 



Tringa canutus, Linn. Syst. 1. 251. 15 Gmel. Syst. 1. 679 Ran Syn. 



108. >A Briss. Orn. 5. 258. 21 Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 738. sp. 44. 



Le Canut, Buff. Ois. 8. 142. 



Knot, Br. Zool. 2. 193. Will. (Angl.) 302 Lath. Syn. 5. 187- sp. 36. 



Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Sup. 



Tringa grisea, Gmel. Syst. 1. 681 Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 733. sp. 23. 

 Manbeche grise', Buff. Ois. 7. 531. 

 Grisled Sandpiper, Lath. Syn. 5. 175. 20. 

 Tringa cinerea, Gmel. Syst. 1. 673 Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 733. sp. 25 



Wils. Amer. Orn. 7. pi. 57. f. 2. 

 Ash-coloured Sandpiper, Br. Zool. 2. No. 194 Lath. Syn. 5. 177 22.. 



Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Sup LewMs Br. Birds, 5. 171 Bewick's 



Br. Birds. 2. 103. 

 Tringa calidris, Linn. Syst. 1. 252. 19 Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 372. sp. 21. 



Briss. 5. 226. 14. pi. 20. f. 1. 

 .La Maubeche, Buff. Ois. 7- 529. t. 31. 

 Dusky Sandpiper, Lath. Syn. 5. 174. 18. 



Tringa njevia, Gmel. Syst. 1. 681 Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 732. sp. 22. 



Maubeche tachete'e, Buff. Ois. 7. 531. 



Freckled Sandpiper, Arct. Zool. 2. 480 Lath. Syn. 5. 174. 19. 



Tringa australis, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 737- sp. 40. 



Southern Sandpiper, Lath. Syn. 5, 187. 35 Id. Sup. 249. 



Winter 



Plumage, 



Young of 

 the year 

 previous to 

 first moult. 



In the 



change 

 from the 

 Winter to 

 the Sum- 

 mer Plum- 

 age. 



THE Knot, which has been described by various writers Periodical 

 under so many different specific titles, according to the pe- V] 

 riod of plumage when the specimens were examined, is the 

 largest of the group hitherto discovered, equalling the Reeve 

 (or female of the Ruff) in the bulk and weight of body. 

 Its legs, however, are much shorter in comparison, giving it 

 a different appearance, and depriving it of the elegance of 

 carriage which so much distinguishes the other bird. In 

 Britain, it is known as a winter resident, great numbers ar- 

 riving from the Polar Regions early in autumn, and spread- 

 ing themselves along the shores, take up their residence in 

 localities congenial with their habits, viz. bays, the mouths 

 of rivers, and other flat parts of the coast, covered with ooze 

 or soft sand, in which they find an abundance of the minute 

 bivalve shell-fish that constitute their principal food. In 

 such situations, collected in immense flocks, whose evolu- 

 tions, when upon wing, are curious and interesting (not un- 

 like those described by WILSON as characterizing the Long- 

 beak (Macroramplms grisea), they reside till the latter part 

 of April or the beginning of May ; when they again depart 

 to the Arctic Regions, for the purposes of incubation and of 



