BIRDS OF KANSAS. 167 



depression in the ground, lined with a few withered leaves and 

 grasses. 



"A set of eggs (S. I. No. 9389), obtained on the Arctic coast 

 by Mr. MacFarlane, June 22d, 1863, was in a nest composed 

 of decayed leaves, and placed in a hollow partly concealed by 

 tufts of grass. The eggs are three in number, of an oblong, 

 pyriform shape, and have a ground-color of a light and bright 

 drab or grayish white, with large, rounded and scattered mark- 

 ings of bistre; these markings are larger and more numerous 

 at the obtuse end. The eggs range from 1.47 to 1.50 inches in 

 length, and have a breadth of one inch. Another set (No. 

 11331), obtained in 1866, have spots that are larger and more 

 confluent about the greater end, and are more rounded in shape, 

 varying between 1.45 and 1.46 inches in length, and in breadth 

 between 1.05 and 1.10 inches. 



GENUS THING- A 



"Body robust; bill and legs short, the former straight, widened terminally, 

 and scarcely longer than the head; tarsus about equal to the bill, or a little 

 shorter; middle toe about two-thirds the tarsus; wings long and pointed, reach- 

 ing beyond the end of the tail." 



SUBGENTJS TRINGA. 

 Middle pair of tail feathers not longer than the rest. (Ridgway.) 



Tringa canutus LINN. 



KNOT. 

 PLATE X. 



Migratory; rare. Two specimens, shot in the spring of the 

 year, at Neosho Falls, by Col. W. L. Parsons, are the only ones 

 to rny knowledge captured or seen in the State. 



B. 526. R. 529. C. 626. G. 244, 77. U. 234. 



HABITAT. Northern hemisphere, chiefly upon the seacoasts; 

 south in winter nearly throughout the southern hemisphere; 

 breeds in high northern latitudes. 



SP. CHAR. Summer adult with lower parts uniform light cinnamon. 

 Above, light grayish, irregularly varied with black and tinged with pale rusty; 

 rump and upper tail coverts white, irregularly barred and spotted with dusky; 

 distinct superciliary stripe, and lower parts generally, uniform pale viuaceous 

 cinnamon, paler on belly; under wing coverts, axillars, flanks and lower tail 

 coverts white, usually more or less marked with dusky. Winter plumage: Above, 



