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[Fam. SCOLOPACIDiE. 



TEINGA CANUTUS. 



(KNOT.) 



Tringa canutus^ Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 251 (1766). 



Tringa calidris, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 252 (1766). ' 



Charadrius utopiensis^ Miill. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 117 (1776). 



MaubeeJie tachefSe, Buff. PI. Enl. viii. p. 363 (1783). 



Grisled Sandpiper, Lath. Gen. Syn. B. iii. pt. 1, p. 175 (1785). 



Southern Sandpiper, Lath. torn. cit. p. 187 (1785). 



Tringa cinerea, Gm. Syst. Nat, i. p. 673 (1788). 



Tyinga australis, Gm. torn, cit. p. 679 (1788, ex Lath.). 



Tringa nwvia, Gm. torn. cit. p. 681 (1788, ex BufF.). 



Tringa grisea, Gm. torn. cit. p. 681 (1788, ex Lath.). 



Tringa islandica, Gm. torn, cit. p. 682 (1788, ex Briinn.). 



Tringa femiginea, Meyer, Taschenh. deutsch. Vogelk. ii. p. 395 (1810). 



Tringa rufa, Wils. Am. Orn. vii. p. 43, pi. 57 (1813). 

 Canutus islandicus, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 654 (1831). 

 Canittus cinereus, Brehm, op. cit. p. 655, Taf. 34. fig. 2 (1831). 

 Calidris canutus, Gould, B. of Eur. iv. pi. 324 (1837). 

 Canutus rufescens, Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 292. 



Ad. ptiL Mem. supra cinerascens : pilei plumis medialiter nigris^ utrinque fulvescentibus, vix striatis : cello 



postico pallidiore, plumis nigro anguste medialiter striatis : dorso toto et scapularibus fulvescente et 

 nigro alterne marginatis : uropygio imo et supracaudalibus albis^ grisescenti-nigro transnotatis : tectri- 

 cibus alarum saturate cinerascentibus^, minimis anguste, majoribus late albido limbatis^ his etiam con- 

 spicue albo terminatis : ala spuria remigibusque saturate brunneis, albido plus minusve late limbatis : 

 remigum scapis albis : cauda cincrea, plumis anguste albido marginatis, scapis albis : supercilio parvo 

 albo : facie laterali, coUo uudique et pectore superiore albis, minute brunneo striatis vel maculatis : gula 

 alba : corpore reliquo subtus albo^, hypocliondriis pauUis grisescente variis : subalaribus et axillaribus 

 albis, his vix grisescente notatis : rostro nigro : pedibus ohvascenti-nigris. 



Ad. ptiL eestiv. omnino divcrsus, rufus : pilei plumis nigro medialiter lineatis : coUo postico eodem modo 



angustissime striato : dorsi plumis conspicue medialiter nigris, rufo marginatis : tectricibus alarum et 

 supracaudalibus ut in ptilosi hiemali coloratis, his autem rufescentibus : subtus Isete rufus, abdomme 

 albicante, hypocliondriis fasciis sagittiformibus notatis. 



Adult in winter. Crown of the head, hind neck, and all the upper surface greyish brown, with darker shaft- 

 lines, the feathers sometimes centred with brown ; sides of the head, chin, and throat white ; an obscure 

 greyish streak across the lores ; fore neck and breast all round greyish white, with numerous minute 



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