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after each discharge merely making a short circuitous flight, 
and again alighting amidst their dead companions. They 
soon, however, grow more wary, and, during the winter 
months, it becomes very difficult to approach them, either at 
rest or when feeding on thé sands, though in their various 
evolutions on the wing, they sometimes approach near enough 
to be within range of the fowling-piece. In this species, the 
bill approaches very closely in form to that of the Ruff, be- 
ing nearly straight, and more dilated at the tip than in the 
other members; and the feet, in which the membrane cover- 
ing the lower surface of the toes is rather strongly marked, 
indicate the passage from this genus to the Phalaropes and 
Lobipedes. Of the nidification, colour of the eggs, &c. we 
have no authentic information; and I cannot but suppose 
that the egg figured by Lewrn as that of the Knot, belonged 
to some other bird, which is rendered more likely by his 
adding, that the Knot arrives in the fens in spring, at the 
same time as the Ruff and Reeve—an assertion at variance 
both with the observations of other naturalists, and with the 
ascertained migratory movements of the species. 
Priate 27. Fic. 1. Represents the Old Bird in the winter General 
plumage. ae ; 
In this state, the crown of the head, hind part of the neck, Adult bird. 
back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, are of a light brown- Auras 
ish-grey, with the shafts of the feathers darker. The 
middle wing-coverts deeply margined and tipped with 
white. Throat white, with a few small hair-brown specks. 
Sides and lower part of the neck white, streaked with 
hair-brown. Belly, abdomen, and under tail-coverts, 
pure white. Breast, sides, and flanks, barred with hair- 
brown. Lower part of the back and upper tail-coverts 
white, with transverse bars of deep hair-brown. Tail 
grey, very finely margined with white. Quills deep hair- 
brown, with white shafts. Legs and feet blackish-grey. 
Fic. 2. Is the young of the year (or T'ringa cinerea of au- 
thors), killed in September. 
