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BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



IRnot 



THE Knot (Tringa canu/us, Linnaeus) is a fairly common 

 migrant to our shores in spring and autumn. It is supposed 

 to breed on all suitable places in the North Polar Basin. 

 The adult in summer has the feathers of the mantle varie- 

 gated with black, chestnut, and white; crown and neck, 

 reddish-brown, streaked with darker ; tail-coverts, white with 

 bars of black ; sides of head, throat, and breast, chestnut ; 

 remainder of under parts, whitish, with black mottlings ; 

 irides, brown ; bill, legs, and feet, blackish. Length, about 

 nine inches. 



