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entirely absent, his only record being May i8, 1885. Mr Todd, in his Birds 

 of Erie, Pa., mentions 17 specimens taken on Lake Erie between August 7- 

 September 14, in the years 1893, 1895 ^rid 1901. Few definite records 

 from the interior of New York have come to my attention. One was taken 

 at Penn Yan in October 1875 [Birds Cent. N. Y. p. 31], two in Saratoga 

 coimty in 1893 [A. S. Brower],two near Buffalo, September 16, 1893 [Savage, 

 Atik, 12:313] and one on Seneca river October 10, 1907 [Foster Parker]. 



Like the Yellow-legs, this species often wades in shallow water while 

 feeding, when flushed it "darts swiftly away with a sharp tweet, tweet." 

 [Gosse] 



Tringa canutus Linnaeus 

 Knot 



Plates 33. 34 



Tringa canutus Linnaeus. Syst. Nat. Ed. 10. 1758. 1:149 



DeKay. Zool. N. Y. 1844. pt 2, p. 243, fig. 194, 218 

 A. O. U. Check List. Ed. 2. 1895. No. 234. 



tri'nga, Lat., sandpiper; canu'tus, pertaining to King Canute who is supposed 

 to have been very fond of this bird 



Description. A large stout sandpiper; bill longer than tarsus, straight, 

 flattened and enlarged at tip; tibia bare about half the length of tarsus; 

 tail nearly even. Summer: Upper parts brownish black, the feathers 

 broadly edged and tipped with grayish white and rufous; tail ashy gray ; rump 

 and upper tail coverts white barred with dusky white; wings gray, primaries 

 dusky ; line over the eye and under parts in general rufous slightly marked 

 with blackish on the sides; flanks and under tail coverts whitish marked 

 with dusky; bill and legs greenish black. Winter: Upper parts gray; 

 upper tail coverts white barred with dusky; under parts white marked 

 with dusky on the breast and sides. Immature: Upper parts dark ash, 

 feathers tipped with whitish, with a subterminal edging of blackish; under 

 parts white, marked on the breast and sides with blackish. 



Length lo-ii inches ; extent 20-21 ; wing 6.5-6.75 ; tail 2.7; bill 1.3-1.4; 

 tarsus 1.2 ; middle toe i, tibia bare .6. 



The Knot, Red-breasted sandpiper, Robin snipe, or Gray-back, breeds in 

 the arctic regions of both hemispheres and migrates along our coast and inland 

 waters, wintering from the gulf coast to South America. It is one of the best 

 known beach birds on the south coast of Long Island, but like all the shore birds 



