. The sportsman's British bird book . hite flecked with grey,and the upper-parts ashy grey. Young birdsin first plumage show a colouring more orless intermediate between the summer andwinter dresses of their parents, the uppersurface of the body being mottled with blackand white, and the under surface tinged with buff and spotted withdusky brown. The down of the chick is white thickly mottled abovewith dark grey and black, while the head shows one dark streak run-ning from the beak to the eye, and a second along the side of the facebelow the eye. In common with the sanderling and certain other
. The sportsman's British bird book . hite flecked with grey,and the upper-parts ashy grey. Young birdsin first plumage show a colouring more orless intermediate between the summer andwinter dresses of their parents, the uppersurface of the body being mottled with blackand white, and the under surface tinged with buff and spotted withdusky brown. The down of the chick is white thickly mottled abovewith dark grey and black, while the head shows one dark streak run-ning from the beak to the eye, and a second along the side of the facebelow the eye. In common with the sanderling and certain other species whichresort to the most remote Arctic regions where the summer is of thebriefest, the knot lingers late on the British shores, where it may oftenbe seen till May, before starting for its breeding-grounds, and returnsearly. Tidal harbours form the chief English resorts of this bird,where, as stated in an earlier paragraph, it often consorts with dunlins,the two species feeding together on the flats of sand or mud, and resting. KNuT ;. I20 PLOVER GROUP in company on the ridges or hummocks of shingle and spits ofhard sand. The characteristically musical note of the knot has beencompared to the repetition of the syllables iui-tui, tui-tni. The foodof this species is generally similar to that of other waders with similarhabits, but univalve molluscs of the genera Turbo and Rissoa arestated to form a favourite portion of the diet. The eggs of the knotwere not definitely identified till the year 1905, although there is littledoubt some few examples had been obtained previously. In the yearreferred to there were exhibited in London a dozen knots eggs and afew nestlings, which had been obtained on the Taimur Peninsula andthe New Siberian Islands, together with the parent birds. Earlier inthe same year a nest and eggs obtained in Iceland in 1898 weredescribed as those of the knot ; and there are two reported instancesof the species having laid in captivity in England. Pu
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