KNOT AND SPOTTED SANDPIPER. , 473 



frofty climate o( Greenland ; but retires to breed into the bottom of 

 the bays : flies very fwiftly along the furface of the water, catching the 

 infefts on the furface. Never touches the water with its feet or ■ 

 body ; but dexteroufly avoids the rifing of ch« higheft waves. Twit- 

 ters with the note of the Swallow *. 



Br.Zool. ii. N" 193. — Le Canut, De BuffctK, vlii. 142. — Latham, in. jgi, Knot 



Triflga Canutus, Faun. Suec. N" 183. — Lev. Mus. 



G^ With a black bill: between the bafe and eyes a white line: 

 crown and upper part of the body of a dufky brown : wings of 

 the fame color, crofTed with a line of white : the breafl and under 

 fide of the necijc white, fpotted with black. : rump white, with large 

 black fpots : legs Ihort, of a blueifh grey : toes divided to the 

 origin. 



1 have feen this fpecies from the province of New Tork. Ob- Piacb. 



ferved by Dr. Pallas only about lake Baikal. 1 



Br. Zool. ii. N" 196.— Tringa Macularia, Lin. Syjl. z^g.—Ednu, 277.— 385. Spotteb. 



Latham, iii. 

 La Grive d'eau, De Bufoa, viii. 140. — ^Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



O^ With a white line above each eye : crown, upper part of neck 

 and body, and coverts of the wings, olive brown, with triangu- 

 lar black fpots" : under fide, from neck to tail, white, with brown 

 fpots : middle feathers of the tail brown ; thofe on the fide white, 

 wjth dufky lines : legs of a dirty flefh-color. Female has no fpots 

 on the lower part of the body. Size of the Striated. 



Inhabits North America. Arrives in Penjylvaniu in ApHl^ and Place. 



ftays there all the fummer. Y\^\X.'& HudfotC s Bay in May: breeds 

 there, and retires in September. 



• Faun. Crernl. N* 730 

 ^ ^ 3 P $r. 



