Order CHABADRllFORMES 
No. 206. 
Family SCOLOPACIDM. 
ANTELIOTRINGA TENUIROSTRIS. 
GREAT KNOT. 
(Plate 164,)* 
Totanus tenuirosteis Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Liond.), Vol. XIII., p. 192, 1821 ; Java. 
Totanus tenuirostris Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XIII., p, 192, 1821 ; Jerdon, 
Birds of India, Vol. III., p. 689, 1864. 
Tringa tenuirostris Swinlioe, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1863, p. 315 ; Gould, Handb. Birds 
Austr., Vol. II., p. 260, 1865 ; Masters, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. I., p. 60, 
1876 ; Ramsay, ih., p. 189, 1877 ; Castelnau and Ramsay, ih., p. 384 ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1877, p. 338. 
SchcBniclus magnus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1848, p. 39 (Australia) ; id., Birds 
Austr., Vol. VI., pi. 33, 1848 ; Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, p. 107, 
1849. 
Tringa crassirostris id., ib., pi. 64 (Japan) ; Middendorff, Sibiriscbe Reise, p. 219, 1851 ; 
Scbrenck, Vogels des Amur-Landes, p. 420, 1860 ; Swinboe, Ibis 1873, p. 370 ; 
Walden, ib. 1874, p. 147 ; Harting, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1874, p. 243, and 
plate ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. III., p. 297, 1879 ; Salvador!, Ornith. 
Papua, e Mol., Vol. III., p. 312, 1882 ; Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadr., p. 421, 
1887 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 20, 1887 ; Legge, Proc. Austr. Assoc. Adv. 
Sci., Vol. IV., p. 951, 1892 ; Taczanowski, Mem. I’Acad. Imp. Sci. St. Petersb., 
Ser. VII., Vol. XXXIX., p. 894, 1893 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XXTV^, 
p. 600, 1896; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, p. 821, 1901; HaU, Key 
Birds Austr., p. 86, 1906 ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis 1910, p. 178 ; Buturlin, Emu, 
Vol. XL, p. 97, 1911 ; HiU, ib., Vol. XII., p. 252, 1913. 
Tringa magna Bonaparte, Comptes Rendus Sci., Vol. XLIII., p. 596, 1856, 
Canntus magnus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., pp. 7 and 223, 1912. 
Disteibtjtion. Siberia (breeding), migrating southward to Austrafia in winter. 
Adult male, in summer-plumage. Upper-surface black, white, and chestnut ; head and hind- 
neck black, streaked with white or grey; back and scapulars black, fringed with 
white and twin spots of chestnut on the latter ; wings dark grey or pale brown 
with fighter edges to most of the coverts, the major coverts more distinctly margined 
with white ; bastard-wing and primary -coverts blackish, more or less tipped with 
* The Plate is lettered Canutus magnus. 
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