CURLEW SANDPIPER 
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on migration. In the circumstances it is difficult to 
identify species, the sounds coming down to us very 
faintly, too, at times ; but it is my belief that I 
have heard the call of the Curlew Sandpiper more 
often than any other in these mysterious nocturnal 
hosts. 
KNOT 
Canutus canutus rogersi 
Yet another Asian migrant, and so far as my experience 
goes, a rare one in the Geelong district. In the 
breeding-season (April to June) it, or a kindred form, 
is widely distributed along the Arctic Circle from 
Hudson Bay eastward across Greenland and the 
north of Europe to Asiatic Siberia ; it is then rufous- 
coloured on the breast and under parts with a shade 
of the same above, very much as is the Curlew Sand- 
piper, from which, though the two species undergo 
corresponding changes of plumage, it may be distin- 
guished afield by its much larger size and straight 
bill. There are specimens in the Geelong Museum 
shot in the district in both phases of plumage. That 
in winter dress was obtained near Point Henry. 
Campbell records the shooting at Westernport of a 
group of three, a male in full breeding-plumage, an 
adult female, and a young female. That was in the 
month of May, showing that the birds don their 
summer livery before migrating northwards. 
It seems to me, considering that the Western 
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