Order CBARADRIIFORMES 
No. 205. 
Family 8C0L0PACIDM, 
CANUTUS CANUTUS ROGERSI. 
EASTERN KNOT 
(Plate 163.)* 
Canutes Canutes eogersi, subsp. n. ; Japan. 
Tringa canutus (not Linne) Middendorff, Sibiriscbe Kesie, p. 219, 1851 ; Schrenck, Vogels 
des Amur-Landes, p. 420, 1860 ; Gonld, Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. II., p. 259, 
1865 ; Bnller, Birds New Zeal., p. 194, 1873 ; id., Trans. New Zeal Inst. 1874, 
Vol. VII., p. 206, 1875 ; id., ib. 1876, Vol. IX., p. 333, 1877 ; id., ib. 1877, Vol. X., 
p. 194, 1878 ; Seebobm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 422, 1887 ; BuUer, Birds New 
Zeal., 2nd ed., Vol. II., p. 35, 1888 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, pp. 20 and 31, 
1888 ; Seebobm, Ibis 1888, p. 348 ; Legge, Proc. Austr. Assoc. Adv. Sci., Vol. IV., 
p. 952, 1892 ; Taczanowski, Mem. I’Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., Ser. VII., Vol. 
XXXIX., p. 895, 1893 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXIV,, p. 593, 1896 ; 
Campbell, Viet. Nat., Vol. XIII., p. 55, 1896; North, Birds County Cumberl., 
p. 112, 1898 ; Hutton, Trans. New Zeal. Inst. 1900, p. 255, 1901 ; Campbell, Nests 
and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 820, 1901 ; Bryant, Emu, Vol, V., p. 26, 1905 ; HaU, 
Key Birds Austr,, p. 86, 1906; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 28, 1908: 
Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 1910, p. 178, 
Canutus canutus (not Liime) Mathews, Nov. Zook, Vol. XVIII., p. 223, 1912. 
Distribution. Siberia (breeding), migrating southward to Australia in winter (New 
Zealand). 
Adult male, in summer-plumage. Sides of face, sides of crown, throat, and under- 
surface rufous, abdomen white, and the under tail-coverts have narrow black 
streaks ; axillaries white with brown bars ; under wing-coverts white with small 
dark freckhngs ; the top of the head black with rufous margins to the feathers ; 
hind-neck grey with dark shaft-lines ; back and scapulars black with chestnut or 
white edgings to the feathers of the former and twin spots on the latter ; lesser 
upper wing-coverts, median, and the greater series pale brown, the latter tipped 
with white ; bastard-wing dark brown, as also the primary-coverts, which have 
white tips ; primary- quiUs dark brown, black at the tips and white shafts ; 
secondaries paler, brown with white tips and whitish inner webs, the long innermost 
feathers like the back ; rump grey with whitish tips to the feathers ; upper tail- 
coverts white, barred and longitudinally lined with black ; tail-feathers grey ; eyes 
brown; feet olive-brown ; bill black. Total length 258 mm ; culmen 31, wing 156, 
tail 64, tarsus 31. 
* The Plate is lettered Ganutus canutm. 
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