CANUTUS. 131 



GeiULs CANUTUS Brelun. 



Canufus Brehm, Yog. Deutschl. p. 653, 1831. Type C. canutus 

 (Linn.). 



This genus is distinguished by having the bill slightly longer 

 than the tarsus and the tail square. 



83. Canutus rufus. 

 The American Knot, 



Truiga rufa Wilson, Amcr. Orn. vii. p. 13, pi. Ivii. fig. .j, JS13 



(we designate New Jer.se}^ as the type locality). 

 Canutus canutus (nee Linn.), Brabourne & Chubb, 13. S. Amer. i. 



p. 13, no. 112, 1912. 

 Trinqa canutus (nee Linn.), Cab. in Sehomb. Iveis. Guian. iii. p. 7oS, 



"1818 ; Salvin, Ibis, 1886, p. 179 ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. 



p. 593, 1896; Queleb, Timehri (2) x. p. 278, 1896. 



"The Knot or lled-breasted Sandpiper'^ [Quelcli). 



Adult male. General colour above, including the head, back, 

 vings, and tail dark grey, Avith dark shaft-streaks and a few black 

 feathers on the back, scapulars, and long innermost secondaries; 

 lower back, rump, and upper tail-coverts black, mottled and mar- 

 gined, or barred with white ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts 

 blackish brown ; primary-quills also blackish, paler ar.d inclining 

 to white on the inner webs towards the base, some of the innci- 

 quills narrowly edged with white on the outer webs ; chin and 

 sides of face white ; fore-neck greyish white with dark shaft- 

 lines ; reuiainder of the under surface irregulaily coloured with 

 rufous and greyish white ; under Ming-coverts, axillaries, and 

 sides of bod}', flanks, and under tail-coverts white irregularly 

 marked with pale brown. "Bill and feet black ; iris dark hazel.' 



Total length 210 mm., culmen 36, wing 166, tail 63, tarsus ?)\. 



Adult female. Similar to the adult male. Wing 168 mm. 



The male descriljcd was moulting from the summer to lli(» 

 winter phnnage. 



The sumnu'r jtlinnagc of the Anu'rican Knot is black aliovo, 

 suffused with i-id'oas, an<l (lit' under surface almost imitbi-m nd'nii-, 

 whih; the bird in winter dress has the n])p('r surface grey and the 

 under parts white with grey markings on the fore-neck and sides 

 of the body. 



This species is a winh'r visitor only to I)riti'^h (iuiana. 



Raitijc ill JJrilish (julana. The only specimen in I lie .McCuunell 



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