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note, like ‘tyak’;’ their plumage bore no trace of red 
colouring. 
A specimen at Kelvingrove, Glasgow, was received from 
Mr. W. J. Dawson, Point of Ayre, on 6th September 1897. 
Nesting very far north, the Knot is in general less 
abundant on the western than the eastern shores of Great 
Britain, and is little in evidence in the Scottish isles. In 
Ireland, though local, it is in many places abundant, and a 
plentiful visitant to the low-lying coasts of Lancashire and 
the Solway ; in Wigtownshire, Gray and Anderson thought 
it uncommon. 
CALIDRIS ARENARIA (Linn.). 
SANDERLING. 
Mr. Kermode reports a specimen in the collection of 
Mr. Unsworth, Douglas. Mr. Baily procured two under > 
Hango, Castletown ; they were feeding with Ringed Plovers 
on the sands there. 
This species, like the last, though probably uncommon, 
can scarcely be so rare as the want of evidence seems to 
indicate. 
The Sanderling occurs in Ireland chiefly in autumn, on 
the east coast; it is not abundant in Belfast Lough. In 
Galloway it is said to appear in very small numbers, 
usually for a week or two in early autumn. On the 
English coasts of the Irish Sea it is local; the mouth of 
the Mersey and parts of the Solway being frequented. It 
occurs in the Outer Hebrides and (apparently scarcely) in 
Orkney and Shetland. It is found on most sandy coasts 
of Britain. 
1 The usual cry of the Knot is, no doubt correctly, given in standard works as 
something quite different, ‘a musical note like the syllables “‘ tiii-tiii, tiii-tiii,”” 
uttered while flying (Sharpe), but Naumann describes also the sound above 
mentioned. 
