Okdee LIMICOL^.] 
[Fam. SCOLOPACID^, 
TEINGA CANUTES. 
(THE KNOT.) 
Tringa canutus, Linn. Syst, Nat. i. p. 251 (1766). 
Tringa calidris, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 252 (1766). 
Charadrius utopievsis. Mull. Syst. Nat. Suppl. p. 117 (1776). 
Mauheche tachetee. Buff. PI. Enl. viii. p. 363 (1783). 
Grisled Sandpiper, Lath. Gen. Syn. B. iii. pt. 1, p. 175 (1785). 
Southern Sandpiper, Lath. tom. cit. p. 187 (1785). 
Tringa cinerea, Gm. Syst. Nat. i. p. 673 (1788). 
Tringa australis, Gm. tom. cit. p. 679 (1788, ex l.ath.). 
Tringa ncevia, Gm. tom. cit. p. 681 (1788, ex Buff.). 
Tringa grisea, Gm. tom. cit. p. 681 (1788, ex Lath.). 
Tringa islandica, Gm. tom. cit. p. 682 (1788, ex Briinn.). 
Tringa ferruginea, Meyer, Taschenb. deutsch. Vogelk. ii. p. 395 (1810). 
Tringa rufa, Wils. Am. Orn. vii. p. 43, pi. 57 (1813). 
Canutus islandicus, Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 654 (1831). 
Canutus cinereus, Brehm, op. cit. p. 655, Taf. 34. fig. 2 (1831). 
Calidris canutus, Gould, B. of Eur. iv. pi. 324 (1837). 
Canutus rufescens, Brehm, Naum. 1855, p. 292. 
Native name. — Huahou. 
■^d. ptil, Mem. supra cinerascens : pilei plumis medialiter nigris, utrinque fulvescentibus, vix striatis : collo postico 
pallidiore, plumis nigro anguste medialiter striatis : dorso toto et scapularibus fulvescente et nigro alterne 
marginatis ; uropygio imo et supracaudalibus albis, grisescenti-uigro transnotatis : tectricibus alarum 
saturate cincrascentibus, minimis anguste, majoribus late albido limbatis, his etiam conspicue albo termi- 
natis : aM spuria remigibusque saturate brunneis, albido plus minusve late limbatis ; rcmigum scapis albis : 
Cauda einerea, plumis anguste albido marginatis, scapis albis : supercilio parvo albo : facie lateral!, collo 
undique et pectore superiore albis, minute brunneo striatis vel maculatis : guH alba : corpore reliquo subtus 
albo, hypochondriis paullb grisescente vai’iis : subalaribus et axillaribus albis, his vix grisescente notatis : 
rosti’o nigro : pedibus olivascenti-nigris. 
■dd. ptil. (Bstiv. omnino diversus, rufus : pilei plumis nigro medialiter lineatis : collo postico eodem modo angus- 
tissime striato : dorsi plumis conspicue medialiter nigris, rufo marginatis : tectricibus alarum et supra- 
caudalibus ut in ptilosi hiemali coloratis, his autem rufescentibus : subtus Isete rufus, abdomine albicante, 
hypochondriis fasciis sagittiformibus notatis. 
Adult in winter. Crown of the head, hind neck, and all the upper surface greyish brown, with darker shaft-lines, 
the feathers sometimes centred with brown ; sides of the head, chin, and throat white ; an obscure greyish 
streak across the lores ; fore neck and breast all round greyish white, with numerous minute streaks of 
brown ; on raising the plumage of these parts each feather is found to be largely centred Avith brown, Avith 
a produced apical spot of the same j underparts of the body white, varied on the sides and flanks Avith 
irregular letter-V markings of brown j inner lining of wings greyish white, the axillary plumes pencilled 
with broAATi in wavy lines ; rump and upper tail-coverts Avhite, Avith circular bars of broAvn ; Aving-feathers 
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