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KNOT , a Limicoline See also:bird very abundant at certain seasons on the shores of See also:Britain and many countries of the See also:northern hemisphere. See also:Camden in the edition of his Britannia published in 1607 (p. 408) inserted a passage not found in the earlier issues of that See also:work, connecting the name with that of See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King Canute, and this See also:account of its origin has been usually received. But no other See also:evidence in its favour is forthcoming, and Camden's statement is merely the expression of an See also:opinion,' so that there is perhaps ground for believing him to have been mistaken, and that the See also:clue afforded by See also:Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- BROWNE
- BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD (18,1–1891)
- BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS (1705-1760)
- BROWNE, JAMES (1793–1841)
- BROWNE, MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES, COUNT VON, BARON DE CAMUS AND MOUNTANY (1705-1757)
- BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735)
- BROWNE, ROBERT (1550-1633)
- BROWNE, SIR JAMES (1839–1896)
- BROWNE, SIR THOMAS (1605-1682)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591–1643)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM GEORGE (1768-1813)
Browne, who (c. 1672) wrote the name " Gnatts or Knots," may be the true one.2 Still the statement was so determinedly repeated by successive authors that See also:Linnaeus followed them in calling the See also:species Tringa canutus, <nd so it remains with nearly all See also:modern ornithologists? Rather larger than a See also:snipe, but with a shorter See also:bill and legs, the knot visits the coasts of some parts of See also:Europe, See also:Asia and See also:North See also:America at times in vast flocks; and, though in temperate climates a See also:good many remain throughout the See also:winter, these are nothing in proportion to those that arrive towards the end of See also:spring, in See also:England generally about the 15th of May, and after staying a few days pass northward to their summer quarters, while See also:early in autumn the See also:young of the See also:year throng to the same places in still greater See also:numbers, being followed a little later by their parents. In winter the plumage is ashy-See also:grey above (See also:save the rump, which is See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white) and white beneath. In summer the feathers of the back are See also:black, broadly margined with See also:light See also:orange-red, mixed with white, those of the rump white, more or less tinged with red, and the See also:lower parts are of a nearly See also:uniform deep See also:bay or See also:chestnut. The birds which winter in temperate climates seldom attain the brilliancy of See also:colour exhibited by those which arrive from the See also:south; the luxuriance generated by the See also:heat of a tropical See also:sun seems needed to develop the full richness of See also:hue. The young when they' come from their birthplace are clothed in ashy-grey above, each See also:feather banded with dull black and ochreous, while the See also:breast is more or less deeply tinged with warm See also:buff. Much curiosity has See also:long existed among zoologists as to the See also:egg of the knot, of which not a single identified or authenticated specimen is known to exist in collections. The species was found breeding abundantly on the North Georgian (now commonly called the See also:Parry) Islands by Parry's See also:Arctic expedition, as well as soon after on See also:Melville See also:Peninsula by See also:Captain See also:Lyons, and again during the voyage of Sir See also:George See also:Nares on the northern See also:coast of See also:Grinnell See also:Land and the shores of See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith See also:Sound, where See also:Major Feilden obtained examples of the newly hatched young (See also:Ibis, 1877, p. 407), and observed that the parents fed largely on the buds of Saxifraga oppositifolia. These are the only localities in which this species is known to breed, for on none of the arctic lands lying to the north of Europe or Asia has it been unquestionably observed.' In winter its wanderings are very extensive, as it is recorded from Surinam, See also:Brazil, %Valfisch Bay in South See also:Africa, See also:China, See also:Queensland and New See also:Zealand. Formerly this species was extensively netted in England, and the birds fattened for the table, where they were
' His words are simply " Knolls, i. Canuti aues, vt opinor e Dania enim aduolare creduntur." In the margin the name is spelt " Cnotts," and he possibly thought it had to do with a well-known See also:story of that king. Knots undoubtedly frequent the See also:sea-See also:shore, where Canute is said on one occasion to have taken up his station, but they generally See also:retreat, and that nimbly, before the advancing surf, which he is said in the story not to have done.
2 In this connexion we may compare the See also:French maringouin, ordinarily a See also:gnat or See also:mosquito, but also, among the French Creoles of America, a small shore-bird, either a Tringa or an Aegialitis, according to Descourtilz (Voyage, ii. 249). See also See also:Littre's Dictionnaire, s.v.
' There are few of the Limicolae, to which See also:group the knot belongs, that See also:present greater changes of plumage according to See also:age or See also:season, and hence before these phases were understood the species became encumbered with many synonyms, as Tringa cinerea, ferruginea, grisea, islandica, naevia and so forth. The confusion thus caused was mainly cleared away by See also:Montagu and Temminck.
The Tringa canutus of Payer's expedition seems more likely to have been T. maritima, which species is not named among the birds of See also:Franz Josef Land, though it can hardly fail to occur there.esteemed a See also:great delicacy, as See also:witness the entries in the See also:Northumberland and Le See also:Strange See also:Household Books; and the See also:British Museum contains an old See also:treatise on the subject:" The maner of kepyng of knotts, after Sir See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Askew and my See also:Lady, given to my See also:Lord See also:Darcy, 25 See also:Hen. VIII." (See also:MSS. See also:Sloane, 1592, 8 See also:cat. 663). (A.
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