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 mouth^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, Linn.®us.) 
Tringa Canutus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 251. 15. — Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 679. — Raii, Syn. p. 
108. A. 5. — Will. p. 224. t. 56. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 738. 44. — Briss. 5. p. 
258. 21. — Ih. 8vo. 2. p. 276. — *Calidris, Briss. 5. p. 226. 14. — Cuv. Reg. 
Anim. 1. p. 489. — Tringa cinerea et grisea, Ginel. 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, Ih. 2. p. 462. — 
Red Sandpiper, Ih. 2. p. 469. (but not Red Sandpiper of his Arel. Zool. 2. p. 
476. 392. & Lath. Syn. 5. p. 186.) — Knot, Br. Zool. 2. No. 193. — Ih. fob 123. 
t. E. 2. f. 1.— Arct. Zool. 2. No, 384 .— Will. (Angl.) p. 302.— Eclw. t. 276. 
— Lath. Syn. 5. p. 187. 36. — Lewins Br. Birds, 5. t. 178. — Flem. Br. Anim. 
p. 109.* 
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