KNOT. 
234. Tringa canutus. 11 inches. 
This is one of the birds that, feed along the ocean beaches, 
following out, each wave as it rolls away and eagerly picking 
the small insects from the sand, and hurrying back to get clear 
from the next wave. Bill moderately long and quite stout; form 
more robust than most of the shore birds. Adults in summer 
mixed with brown and grayish above and of a reddish uniform 
brown below, in winter plain gray above and white below. 
Nest. —They are supposed to breed in Arctic America, but 
no eggs are known as yet in any collections. 
Range. —Arctic regions in summer; in winter south through 
the United States to South America. 
PRIBILOF SANDPIPER. 
235b. Arquatella maritima ptilocnemis. 9 inches. 
This bird has the feathers of the upper parts edged with 
rusty and the under parts light, with a distinguishing patch of 
black on the breast. Three or four eggs of a grayish buff color, 
spotted and blotched with brown, laid on the ground in a de¬ 
pression with a light lining of grass (1.50 x 1.05). 
