Oram GEALI^E.] [Fam. SCOLOPACID/TC. 



TRINGA CANUTUS. 



(KNOT.) 



Trmga canutus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 251 (1766). 



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



Ckaradrius utqpiensis, Mull. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 117 (1776). 



Maubeche tacheUe, Buff. PI. Enl. viii. p. 363 (1783). 



Grided 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). 



Tringa 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 ferruginea, Meyer, Taschenb. deutsch. Vogelk. ii. p. 395 (1810). 



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



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



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



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



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



Ad. ptil. Mem. supra cinerascens : pilei plumis medialiter nigris, utrinque fulvescentibus, vix striatis : collo 

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

 uigro 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 cinerea, plumis anguste albido marginatis, scapis albis : supercilio parvo 

 albo : facie laterali, collo undique et pectore superiore albis, minute brunneo striatis vel maculatis : gula 

 alba : corpore reliquo subtiis albo, hypochoudriis paullis grisescente variis : subalaribus et axillaribus 

 albis, bis vix grisescente notatis : rostro nigro : pedibus olivascenti-nigris. 



Ad. ptil. cBstiv. omnino diversus, rufus : pilei plumis nigro mediabter lineatis : collo postico eodem modo 

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

 supracaudalibus ut in ptilosi hiemali coloratis, his autem rufescentibus : subtiis laete rufus, abdomine 

 albicante, hypochoudriis 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 j 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 



