Kwnor. GRALLATORES. TRINGA. 139 
Tringa canutus, Linn. Syst. 1. 251. 15.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 679.—Raii Syn. 
108. A.— Briss. Orn. 5. 258. 21.—Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 738. sp. 44. 
Le Canut, Buff: Ois. 8. 142. 
Knot, Br. Zool. 2. 193.— Will. (Angl.) 302.—Lath. Syn. 5. 187. sp. 36. \ Winter 
Mont. Ornith. Dict. and Sup. Plumage. 
Tringa grisea, Gmel. Syst. 1. 681.—Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 733. sp. 23. 
Manbeche gris¢, Buff: Ois. 7. 531. 
Grisled Sandpiper, Lath. Syn. 5. 175. 20. 
Tringa cinerea, Gmel. Syst. 1. 673.—Lath. Ind. Orn, 2. 733. sp. 25.— a , 
Wils. Amer. Orn. 7. pl. 57. f. 2. pig 
Ash-coloured Sandpiper, Br. Zool. 2. No. 194.—Lath. Syn. 5. 177 22.. ees 
—Mont. Ornith. Dict. and Sup.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 5.17 L—Bewick’s | pes to 
Br. Birds. 2. 103. rst moult. 
Tringa calidris, Linn. Syst. 1. 252. 19.—Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 372. sp. 21. 
—Briss. 5. 226. 14. pl. 20. f. 1. In the 
La Maubeche, Buff: Ois. 7. 529. t. 31. change 
Dusky Sandpiper, Lath. Syn. 5. 174. 18. from the 
Tringa neevia, Gmel. Syst. 1. 681.—Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 732. sp. 22. Winter to 
Maubeche tachetée, Buff: Ois. 7. 531. the Sum- 
Freckled Sandpiper, Arct. Zool. 2. 480.—Lath. Syn. 5. 174. 19. mer Plum- 
Tringa australis, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 737. sp. 40. age. 
Southern Sandpiper, Lath. Syn. 5. 187. 35.—Id. Sup. 249. 
Tue Knot, which has been described by various writers Periodical 
under so many different specific titles, according to the pe- aoe 
riod of plumage when the specimens were examined, is the 
largest of the group hitherto discovered, equalling the Reeve 
(or female of the Ruff) in the bulk and weight of body. 
Its legs, however, are much shorter in comparison, giving it 
a different appearance, and depriving it of the elegance of 
carriage which so much distinguishes the other bird. In 
Britain, it is known as a winter resident, great numbers ar- 
riving from the Polar Regions early in autumn, and spread- 
ing themselves along the shores, take up their residence in 
localities congenial with their habits, viz. bays, the mouths 
of rivers, and other flat parts of the coast, covered with ooze 
or soft sand, in which they find an abundance of the minute 
bivalve shell-fish that constitute their principal food. In 
such situations, collected in immense flocks, whose evolu- 
tions, when upon wing, are curious and interesting (not un- 
like those described by Wt1son as characterizing the Long- 
beak (Macroramphus grisea), they reside till the latter part 
of April or the beginning of May, when they again depart 
to the Arctic Regions, for the purposes of incubation and of 
