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to visit the coasts of Portugal occasionally. In Spain it is, curious to say, frequently common in 

 May, and is then found in full summer dress. I met with it exposed for sale in the Barcelona 

 market early in that month; and Lord Lilford found it in countless numbers, about the 10th of 

 May, near the edge of the Coto de Donana ; but Colonel Irby says that it is irregular in its 

 appearance in the vicinity of Gibraltar, and he met with it but rarely, and only in April and 

 May. According to Count Salvadori it is of very rare occurrence in Italy, where it is stated to 

 have been met with in Venetia and Liguria ; and Mr. A. B. Brooke records it as occurring in 

 Sardinia in winter. Mr. C. A. Wright says (Ibis, 1864, p. 148) that there is a specimen in the 

 Malta University Museum ; and Schembri records the capture of two or three examples in 

 January and February in winter plumage. 



It has been recorded as a rare straggler in Southern Germany. Dr. Anton Fritsch writes 

 (J. f. O. 1871, p. 388) that Palliardi obtained it in August 1849, and another was shot on the 

 18th September 1853, at the Bohdanec pond, near Pardubic. The specimen in the Feldegg 

 collection is also said to have been obtained in Bohemia. Messrs. Danford and Harvie-Brown 

 record it from Transylvania as being not rare on riversides during passage ; and it has been met 

 with in various parts of Austria and the Turkish empire. According to Dr. Kriiper it appears 

 singly in Greece in winter ; and Messrs. Elwes and Buckley state that it was seen on the coast 

 of Turkey, near Kustendji. It is also found in Southern Russia ; but I have no data respecting 

 its occurrence on the coasts of Asia Minor. 



In North-east Africa it is of rare and almost doubtful occurrence. Neither Captain Shelley 

 nor Dr. von Heuglin met with it there ; but Dr. Vierthaler states that he observed it on the 

 Lower Blue Nile. It appears, however, to be certainly found on the west side of the continent. 

 Favier states that it passes near Tangier in June ; but, as Colonel Irby justly remarks, the passage 

 must take place very early in that month. It has been obtained in Gambia and on the Gaboon ; 

 and Mr. Andersson states (B. of Damara Land, p. 306) that it is of rare occurrence on the 

 coast of Damara Land, and the few he observed there were generally associating with flocks 

 of Sanderlings, Curlew Sandpipers, and Little Stints along the shallows in Walwich Bay. 

 Dr. Hartlaub states that it visits South Africa; but Mr. E. L. Layard did not meet with it in 

 the Cape colony. 



In Asia the Knot is tolerably widely distributed, but seems to be everywhere somewhat 

 rare. Von Middendorff says that he did not meet with it on the Taimyr, except on one occasion, 

 when he found one dead on the 30th August. Two were shot on the Boganida on the 27th May ; 

 but it was not seen again there ; on the 7th July, however, a large number were seen on the sea- 

 shore close to the mouth of the Uda. Dr. von Schrenck shot two on the 17th (29th) August on 

 the low pebbly shore of the Amoor, near the Nikolaieffsk post. According to Dr. Dybowski it 

 is rare in Dauria, and he only obtained one specimen, shot in Kultuk on the 24th of August 

 1870. It is, so far as I can ascertain, not recorded from Japan ; but Mr. Swinhoe has specimens 

 obtained at Shanghai. Dr. Jerdon included it in his ' Birds of India ;' but Mr. A. O. Hume 

 says (Stray Feathers, i. p. 241) that the bird obtained by Dr. Jerdon was doubtless not the 

 present species, but Tringa crassirostris, Temm. & Schl. I do not find it recorded from the 

 intervening countries ; but it has occurred in Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Gould writes 

 (B. of Austr. ii. p. 259) that he received undoubted examples from Moreton Bay, in Australia; 



