KNOT. 
Wiliughby says, that these birds are said 
to come into Lincohishire at the beginning of 
winter, where they stay two or three months 
about the sea-shores, and then disappear. 
They fly In flocks. They have also been seen 
on the coast of Lancashire, near Liverpool, in 
the winter season. 
I did not propose to figure or describe 
any English bird already figured and de- 
scribed: but, as this bird is rare in the southern 
parts of England, and the figure in Wil- 
iughby but indifFerent, and Albin has omitted 
it, I thought a more perfect figure might be 
acceptable to the curious. My description," 
concludes Edwards, " which is taken from 
the bird newly killed, differs a little from Wil- 
lughby's ; which will always be the case, 
wlien two people describe, from two different 
-subjedls, or even from the same subjedl.'* 
BufFon says — " It is probable that, in some 
of the northern countries, there are traditionary- 
anecdotes of this bird; since it retains the name 
of Canute, the Dane, King of England. It 
would," he observes^ much resemble the 
Grey 
