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Range (Northern hemisphere breeding)

Northern hemisphere, breeding within the Arctic Circle, and in America wintering from Florida to South America.

Long Island, not uncommon T. V., May 15 to June 10; July 15 to Nov. Eggs, known from only one specimen collected in the vicinity of Fort Conger by General Greely, and described as "light pea-green, closely spotted with brown in small specks about the size of a pinhead," 1.10 x 1.00 (see Merriam, Auk, ii, 1885, p. 313).

Knots feed along the beaches on the small crustaceans and mollusca brought in by the waves, and they also frequent muddy places, where, like the true Snipe, they probe the ground for food. They decoy with ease, "bunching" so closely as they wheel into the stools that the entire flock is sometimes killed by a single discharge. Mr.