. The birds of the Japanese Empire. Birds. LlMICOL^. 333 Figures : Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonicaj Aves, pi. 64 (summer and winter plumage). The Japanese Knot, so called because it was originally discovered in Japan, is only a spring and autumn visitor on migration to the islands whose name it bears. I have an example obtained by Mr. Snow on the Kurile Islands. It was first obtained in Yezzo in October 1857, by Dr. Henderson (Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1858, p. 196), and afterwards in 1861 (Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, p. 330), and there are seven examples in the Pryer collection fr
. The birds of the Japanese Empire. Birds. LlMICOL^. 333 Figures : Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonicaj Aves, pi. 64 (summer and winter plumage). The Japanese Knot, so called because it was originally discovered in Japan, is only a spring and autumn visitor on migration to the islands whose name it bears. I have an example obtained by Mr. Snow on the Kurile Islands. It was first obtained in Yezzo in October 1857, by Dr. Henderson (Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sc. Philad. 1858, p. 196), and afterwards in 1861 (Blakiston, Ibis, 1862, p. 330), and there are seven examples in the Pryer collection from Yokohama. The Japanese Knot probably breeds somewhere in Eastern Siberia. 336. TRINGA CANUTUS. (KNOT.) Tringa canutus, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 251 (1766). Four of the cleft-toed Sandpipers have the ground-colour of the upper tail-coverts white. Two of these are smaller birds (wing from carpal joint less than 5^ inches), but the third, the Japanese Knot,. Tringa canutus. is larger (wing 7'6 to 7 inches, instead of 68 to 62 inchesj bill from frontal feathers 1-8 to 1-6, instead of 1-5 to I'l inch). Figures : Dresser, Birds of Europe, viii. pis. 555, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Seebohm, Henry, 1832-1895. London, R. H. Porter
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