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Subgenus TRINGA. 

 TKINGA CANUTUS Linx. 



96. Knot (234) 



Bill, equalling or rather exceeding the liead, comparatively stout. Adult in 

 Hummer: — Above, brownish-black, each feather tipped with ashy-white, and 

 tinged with reddish on scapulars ; below, uniform brownish-red, much as in the 

 robin, fading into white on the flanks and crissum ; upper tail coverts white 

 with dusky bars, tail feathers and secondaries grayish-ash with white edges; 

 quills, blackish ; gray on the inner webs and with white shafts ; bill and feet, 

 blackish. Touiir/: — Above, clear ash, with numerous black and white semi- 

 circles ; below white, more or less tinged witli reddish, dusky speckled on 

 breast, wavy barred on sides. Length, 10-! 1; wing, 6-6A ; tail, 2;^, nearly 

 square; bill about IJ (veiy variable). 



H.4B. — Nearly cosmopolitan. Breeds in higli northern latitudes, l)ut visits 

 the southern hemisphere during its migration. 



Nest, a depiession in the sand. 



Eggs, light pea-green. 



This is the largest and handsomest of the 8andpipers, and though 

 common along the .sea coast, it is only an occasional visitor inland. 

 The specimen in my collection I killed many years ago on the muddy 



