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shot on the 24th of August. Middendorff saw flocks of this bird on the 7th of July at the 

 mouth of the Uda, in the Sea of Okhotsk (about lat. 55°) ; and Schrenck obtained two 

 examples on the 29th of August at the mouth of the Amoor, a few miles to the east of the 

 latter locality. 



The alleged egg of the Knot obtained by Greely near Fort Conger (Auk, 1885, p. 313) 

 cannot be accepted as authentic. It exactly resembles in size and colour eggs of Ereunetes 

 pusillus. It was most likely an egg of that species, though it is not impossible that it may 

 have been the egg of the Curlew Sandpiper or of the Grey Phalarope, either of which 

 birds might, in breeding-plumage, be mistaken by an inexperienced observer for the Knot. 

 I have an egg in my collection which I believe to be that of a Knot. It was sent in 1875 

 with the bird to Copenhagen by Coloniforsteher Bolbroe from Disco, in Greenland. It is 

 unfortunately indistinguishable from a very handsome Snipe's egg, more boldly blotched 

 and paler in ground-colour than usual. The Snipe has never been known to breed so far 

 north as lat. 71°, and it is quite possible that the eggs of the Knot may be indistinguishable 

 from those of the Snipe, but it does not seem possible that they are indistinguishable from 

 those of the Semipalmated Stint. 



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 allies. 



The Knot is very rare in the Mediterranean during winter, but. in spring and autumn 

 it passes in considerable numbers to and from its winter-quarters on the west coast of 

 Africa, where it occurs as far south as Damara-Land. North of the French coast the 

 stream of migration divides, one route taking the west coast of England and Scotland 

 through the Faroes to Iceland and Greenland ; but the main route following the Dutch 

 and German coasts through Heligoland or the east coast of Great Britain, through the' 

 Orkneys and the Shetlands, to the North Cape. It has only occurred once or twice in 

 India, and not at all in Ceylon or Burma; but on the west coast of the Pacific it passes 

 Japan and China on migration, to winter in Australia and New Zealand. It does not 

 appear to be recorded from the Pacific coast of America; but it passes in considerable 

 numbers on migration on the Atlantic coast of that continent, as well as along some of the 

 well-known inland fly-lines, and has been obtained in winter as far south as Brazil. 



The Knot is a very close ally of the Japanese Knot, and must be a very near connection 

 of the Curlew Sandpiper. 



