. Birds of North Carolina . Knot: Robin Snipe. Ads. in summer.—Lpperparts barred and streaked with black and wliite and rufous; tailashy gray, narrowly margined with whitish; undorparts dull rufous; lower belly white orwhitish, sides sometimes with black bars. (.See Auk. X, , p. 25.) Ads. and Jur. in ufin-ter.—Upporparts plain brownish gray; upper tail-coverts barred with black and wliite, tailbrownish gray; breast and sides barred with black, belly white. Jur.—Lpperparts pale bromi-ish gray; head streaked with blackish; back, wing-coverts, and scapulars with distinct blackand white bord
. Birds of North Carolina . Knot: Robin Snipe. Ads. in summer.—Lpperparts barred and streaked with black and wliite and rufous; tailashy gray, narrowly margined with whitish; undorparts dull rufous; lower belly white orwhitish, sides sometimes with black bars. (.See Auk. X, , p. 25.) Ads. and Jur. in ufin-ter.—Upporparts plain brownish gray; upper tail-coverts barred with black and wliite, tailbrownish gray; breast and sides barred with black, belly white. Jur.—Lpperparts pale bromi-ish gray; head streaked with blackish; back, wing-coverts, and scapulars with distinct blackand white borders; upper tail-coverts barred with l)laekish; tail ashy gray, narrowly marginedwith white; undcrparts white; breast finelv streaked or spotted with blackish; flanks barredor streaked with blackish. L., 10.,50; W., 6;75; Tar., ; B., (Chap., of E. .V. A.) Range.—Nearly cosmopolitan, breeding far northward and wintering far southward. Range in North Carolina.—Coastal region during the migration. I. Fig. 89. Knot. The Knot is another well-known beach-bird, the shore-line of the ocean andsounds being its favorite fccding-grotmd. It occurs in greatest abundance in ^ July to September the rcttiniiiig flights from the north again enliven themuddy tide-flats. It decoys well and may often be found associated with otherbeach-loving species. It has been shot so incessantly that its numbers have been Descriptive List 129 much reduced in recent years. Many of the birds are said now to make a part oftheir southward flight over the ocean, a course which insures them protection fromlocal gunners. One species of the genus Arqualella, the Pm-ple Sandpiper, A. mariiima marilima (Briinn.),may occur with us as a straggler, as it winters as far south as Long Ishmd, and has beenknown to wander to Georgia and Florida. Its generic characters would bring it under thesecond branch of 7 in the generic key, but it may be distinguished by having the tarsus shorterthan the
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