120 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Knot, Tinga canutus, as one of the birds whose nesting haunts 
still remain undiscovered, and whose eggs still remain to be 
described. This is not quite accurate, for although we have 
never seen an authenticated egg of this bird, and are not aware 
that one is to be found in any collection in Europe, it is never- 
theless true that the Knot was found years ago breeding on 
Melville Peninsula, as well as on the North Georgian Islands 
MIGRATION OF GEESE. 
(now better known as the Parry Islands) ;* while Capt. Fielden 
during the last Polar Expedition procured an old Knot with the 
young in down in Discovery Bay (lat. 81° 44’ N.).t The eggs 
found on Melville Peninsula are described as “‘ of a dun colour, 
fully marked with reddish spots.” There can be no doubt, how- 
ever, that we have yet a good deal to learn about the nesting 
habits and haunts of this species. 
* See Sabine, Greenl. Birds, p. 5383; Parry’s First Voy., Suppl., p. 201: 
Parry’s Second Voy., Append., p. 855; Richardson and Swainson, Faun. 
Bor. Am. (Birds), p. 387. 
+ See ‘ The Ibis,’ 1877, p. 407, and Nares’s Voy., Append. vol. ii., p. 211. 
