KNOT. 



LIMICOLtf. 



413 



SCOLOPACIDJ?. 



TRINGA CANUTUS, Linnaeus.* 

 THE KNOT. 

 Tringa canutus. 



THE KNOT is by no means an uncommon bird in the 

 British Islands from autumn through the winter to the 

 spring. In the L'Estrange and Northumberland Household 

 Books so frequently quoted ' Knotts ' or * Knottes ' are 

 mentioned on several occasions, and as an article of diet 

 the bird was evidently appreciated in the early part of 

 the sixteenth century. Camden, in the edition of his 

 ' Britannia ' bearing date 1607, but not in previous ones, 

 gives it as his opinion that the name was connected with 



* Tringa Canutus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, p. 251 (1766). 



