﻿BIRDS 
  OF 
  NEW 
  YORK 
  307 
  

  

  entirely 
  absent, 
  his 
  only 
  record 
  being 
  May 
  i8, 
  1885. 
  Mr 
  Todd, 
  in 
  his 
  Birds 
  

   of 
  Erie, 
  Pa., 
  mentions 
  17 
  specimens 
  taken 
  on 
  Lake 
  Erie 
  between 
  August 
  7- 
  

   September 
  14, 
  in 
  the 
  years 
  1893, 
  ^895 
  ^'^'^^ 
  1901. 
  Few 
  definite 
  records 
  

   from 
  the 
  interior 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  have 
  come 
  to 
  my 
  attention. 
  One 
  was 
  taken 
  

   at 
  Penn 
  Yan 
  in 
  October 
  1875 
  [Birds 
  Cent. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  p. 
  31], 
  two 
  in 
  Saratoga 
  

   county 
  in 
  1893 
  [A. 
  S. 
  Brower],two 
  near 
  Buffalo, 
  September 
  16, 
  1893 
  [Savage, 
  

   Auk, 
  12:313] 
  and 
  one 
  on 
  Seneca 
  river 
  October 
  10, 
  1907 
  [Foster 
  Parker]. 
  

  

  Like 
  the 
  Yellow-legs, 
  this 
  species 
  often 
  wades 
  in 
  shallow 
  water 
  while 
  

   feeding, 
  when 
  flushed 
  it 
  "darts 
  swiftly 
  away 
  with 
  a 
  sharp 
  tweet, 
  tweet." 
  

   [Gosse] 
  

  

  Tringa 
  canutus 
  Linnaeus 
  

   Knot 
  

  

  Plates 
  33, 
  34 
  

  

  Tringa 
  canutus 
  Linnaeus. 
  Syst. 
  Nat. 
  Ed. 
  lo. 
  1758. 
  1:149 
  

  

  DeKay. 
  Zool. 
  N. 
  Y. 
  1844. 
  pt 
  2, 
  p. 
  243, 
  fig. 
  194, 
  218 
  

   A. 
  O.'U. 
  Check 
  List. 
  Ed. 
  2. 
  1895. 
  No. 
  234 
  

  

  trVnga, 
  Lat., 
  sandpiper; 
  canil'tus, 
  pertaining 
  to 
  King 
  Canute 
  who 
  is 
  supposed 
  

   to 
  have 
  been 
  very 
  fond 
  of 
  this 
  bird 
  

  

  Description. 
  A 
  large 
  stout 
  sandpiper; 
  bill 
  longer 
  than 
  tarsus, 
  straight, 
  

   flattened 
  and 
  enlarged 
  at 
  tip; 
  tibia 
  bare 
  about 
  half 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  tarsus; 
  

   tail 
  nearly 
  even. 
  Summer: 
  Upper 
  parts 
  brownish 
  black, 
  the 
  feathers 
  

   broadly 
  edged 
  and 
  tipped 
  with 
  grayish 
  white 
  and 
  rufous; 
  tail 
  ashy 
  gray; 
  rump 
  

   and 
  upper 
  tail 
  coverts 
  white 
  barred 
  with 
  dusky 
  white; 
  wings 
  gray, 
  prim.aries 
  

   dusky; 
  line 
  over 
  the 
  eye 
  and 
  under 
  parts 
  in 
  general 
  rujous 
  slightly 
  marked 
  

   with 
  blackish 
  on 
  the 
  sides; 
  flanks 
  and 
  under 
  tail 
  coverts 
  whitish 
  marked 
  

   with 
  dusky; 
  bill 
  and 
  legs 
  greenish 
  black. 
  Winter: 
  Upper 
  parts 
  gray; 
  

   upper 
  tail 
  coverts 
  white 
  barred 
  with 
  dusky; 
  under 
  parts 
  white 
  marked 
  

   with 
  dusky 
  on 
  the 
  breast 
  and 
  sides. 
  Immature: 
  Upper 
  parts 
  dark 
  ash, 
  

   feathers 
  tipped 
  with 
  whitish, 
  with 
  a 
  subterminal 
  edging 
  of 
  blackish; 
  under 
  

   parts 
  white, 
  marked 
  on 
  the 
  breast 
  and 
  sides 
  with 
  blackish. 
  

  

  Length 
  lo-ii 
  inches; 
  extent 
  20-21; 
  wing 
  6.5-6.75; 
  tail 
  2.7; 
  bill 
  1.3-1.4; 
  

   tarsus 
  1.2; 
  middle 
  toe 
  i 
  , 
  tibia 
  bare 
  .6. 
  

  

  The 
  Knot, 
  Red-breasted 
  sandpiper, 
  Robin 
  snipe, 
  or 
  Gray-back, 
  breeds 
  in 
  

   the 
  arctic 
  regions 
  of 
  both 
  hemispheres 
  and 
  migrates 
  along 
  our 
  coast 
  and 
  inland 
  

   waters, 
  wintering 
  from 
  the 
  gulf 
  coast 
  to 
  South 
  America. 
  It 
  is 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  best 
  

   known 
  beach 
  birds 
  on 
  the 
  south 
  coast 
  of 
  Long 
  Island, 
  but 
  like 
  all 
  the 
  shore 
  birds 
  

  

  