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ORD. I. GEN. VI. SANDPIPER, 



SPE. XIII. KNOT. 



PL 179. 



Tringa canutus. Lin. Syft. I. p. 251. 

 Le canut. BriJ. Orn. V. p. 258. 



The knot is nine inches in length, twenty in breadth, and weighs four ounces 

 and half. The bill is of a dufky alh-colour : the tongue as long as the bill : 

 eyes, hazel : from the bill to the eye, a dufky line j over the eye a white one : 

 the upper parts of the bird are afh-coloured : on the lower order of wing co- 

 verts there is a bar of white : the greater quills are darker than the reft, and 

 have white ftiafts : the lower part of the back, and upper tail coverts, dark 

 afh-colour, marked with white fpots, like crefcents : the tail, afti-coloured : 

 the under part of the bird, white, marked with fmall dufky fpots on the throat 

 and breaft ; the fides under the wings, the belly, thighs, and vent, crofted with 

 dufky lines : legs, blueifh afti-colour. In fome birds the forehead, chin, and 

 fore part of the neck, are afti-coloured brown : the upper parts, brown, with 

 afh-coloured margins to the feathers : and the outer tail feather, on each fide, 

 •white. 



This bird is not unfrequent in England, appearing with the ruff, to which, 

 when fatted, it is held equal in value, and fome even prefer it. It is alfo taken, 

 in fmall numbers, in the winter feafon, on various parts of our coafts. For 

 the egg fee PI. XXXIX. Fig. 1. 



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