284 KNOT. 



Provincial. — Annet. 



This species is about fourteen or fifteen inches in length ; weight 

 seven or eight ounces. The bill is greenish yellow ; irides dusky ; 

 inside of the mouth deep orange ; head, neck, breast, and all be- 

 neath, white ; back and wings cinereous grey ; the first quill-feather 

 has the exterior web black, and the four or five next are tipped the 

 same ; the tail is pure white ; legs dusky, with a knob instead of a back 

 toe. It sometimes has a dusky spot behind the ear ; but this must be 

 considered as a mark of immaturity, and but another remove from the 

 state in which it has been made a distinct species, under the title of 

 Tarrock ; but there no longer exists any doubt of their being the same. 



It very rarely appears in the southern parts of England ; one instance 

 only has occurred. It is found in the arctic regions ; not uncommon 

 in Iceland and Greenland ; and has been met with at Kamtschatka. 



In the month of March, 1806, three of these birds were thrown up 

 by the tide, on the south coast of Devon, lying close together, as if 

 they had been shot out of a flock, and had floated on shore together. 

 This circumstance makes it clear, that it sometimes is induced to leave 

 the more northern parts, without being compelled by extreme cold, for 

 that winter had been remarkably mild. 



They breed in the isles of Bass and Glass, on Troup-head, Flam- 

 borough-head, Fowl's-heugh, near Montrose, and other parts of Scot- 

 land. In the Isle of May, at the moutfr'of Forth, the rocks are covered 

 with the dung of this species, being unmolested till the young are fit 

 to take, which, together with solan geese, and some other rock-birds, 

 are eaten by the inhabitants before dinner, as a whet to their appetites. 

 Of this, a curious story is told of a gentleman who went to the Isle of 

 May to eat Kittiwakes, and after eating a dozen, exclaimed that he did 

 not find his appetite improved. 



Mr. Boys found these birds at Fowls-heugh near Stonehaven, in vast 

 abundance, where he says they breed in greater numbers^perhaps than 

 in any other part of Scotland. 



KNOT (Tringa cinerea, Linnaeus.) 



Tringa Canutus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 251. 15. — Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 679 Rail, Syn. p. 



108. A. 5.— Will. p. 224. t. 56 — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 738. 44.— Briss. 5. p. 



258. 21 — lb. 8vo. 2. p. 276.— *Calidris, Briss.' 5. p. 226. 14 Cuv. Reg. 



Anim. 1. p. 489. — Tringa cinerea et grisea, Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 673. sp. 41. 15. — 



Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 733. 23. 44 — Wils. Am. Orn. 7. pi. 57. fig. 2 Tringa 



islandica, Gmel. 1. p. 682. 24 — Tringa rufa, Wils. Am. Orn. 7. p. 43. pi. 57. 

 fig. 5 — Tringa naevia et australis, Gmel. 1. p. 681 and 679. 40. 39.— Dusky, 



Speckled, and Southern Sandpiper, Lath. Syn. 5. p. 18. 19. 35 Ash-coloured 



Sandpiper, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. p. 194 — Aberdeen Sandpiper, lb. 2. p. 462.— 

 lied Sandpiper, lb. 2. p. 469. (but not Eed Sandpiper of his Arct. Zool. 2. p. 



476. 392. & Lath. Syn. 5. p. 186.)— Knot, Br. Zool. 2. No. 193 lb. fol. 123. 



t. E. 2. f. 1.— Arct. Zool. 2. No. 384 Will. (Angl.) p. 302,— Edw. t. 276. 



—Lath. Syn. 5. p. 187. 36 — Lewin's Br. Birds, 5. t. 178 Flem. Br. Anim. 



p. 109.* 



