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under parts ashy-white, tinged with pale reddish, with numer- 
ous longitudinal stripes of brownish-black on the neck, and 
transverse stripes of the same on the other under parts; axil- 
lary feathers white; under wing coverts ashy-white; bill and 
legs greenish-black. 
Length, 9; wing, 5.25; tail, 2.25; bill, 1.75; tarsus, 1.79. 
Habitat, Eastern Province of North America. 
TRINGA CANUTUS L. (284.) 
KNOT. 
There have been two or three years in succession when I 
failed to find this rather rare Sandpiper, followed by as many 
more when I would get one or two of them, but for the last ten 
years I find more of them in the market, brought ‘‘ from 
beyond the Big Woods,” than I find anywhere else. 
They are found single in the spring migrations, or at most 
in pairs, but in the late summer and fall they are invariably 
mingled with other species. Their stay is very short in the 
spring, but in the fall they remain until November. There is 
little in their habits while with us to distinguish them from 
the other members of the family. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 
Bill straight, rather longer than the head, compressed and 
slightly enlarged at the tip; upper mandible with the nasal 
groove extending to near the tip; legs moderate; tibia with its 
lower third naked; neck, moderate; wing, long; tail, short; toes, 
free at base, flattened beneath, widely margined, hind toe small 
jand slender; entire upper parts light gray, with lanceolate, 
inear and irregular spots of black, and others pale-reddish; 
ump and upper tail coverts white, with transverse narrow 
ands and crescent shaped spots of black; under parts light 
brownish-red, paler in the middle of the abdomen; under tail 
coverts, tibial feathers, flanks, axillary feathers, and under 
wing coverts white, generally with spots and transverse bars 
of brownish-black; quills brownish-black with their shafts 
white; tail, light brownish-cinereous without bars or spots, all 
the feathers edged with white, and frequently with a second 
sub edging of dark-brown; bill, brownish-black; legs, greenish 
black. 
Length, 10; wing, 6.50; tail, 2.50, commissure, 1.50; tarsus 
1.25. 
‘Habitat, nearly cosmopolitan. 
