KNOT. 
Grey Lapwing, were it as large, and it's bill 
otherwise shaped."' 
The description which BufFon gives of this 
bird appears to have been compiled from Wii- 
lughby and Edwards, and not taken from the 
bird itself. 
Willughby," he says, describes a method 
of fattening them, by feeding them with bread 
soaked in milk, and speaks of the exquisite fla- 
vour thus communicated to their flesh. He 
subjoins that, at first sight, a person would not 
distinguish them from the Sandpipers, or 
Tringse, but by the white bar on the wing. 
The bill, he remarks, too, is of a harder sub- 
stance than usual in other birds, in which it's 
strufture resembles that of the Woodcock. 
An indication given by Linnaeus, would shew- 
that this bird is found in Sweden. Yet does a 
difficulty occur : for, according to Vv^illughby, 
the feet of the Knot are cloven ; but Linnasus 
represents his Canutus as having it's outer toe 
conne6led by the flrst joint to that of the mid- 
dle. If both these observers have been accu- 
rate," concludes Bufl'on, " we must regard 
the two birds as belonging to distindl species, 
