BIRnS — ARDEIPAE — DEMIEORETTA PEALII. 



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Comparative measurements of Ardeae. 



DEMIEGRETTA PEALII, Baird. 



Peale's Egret. 



Jrdeapealii, Bonap. Syn. 1828, 304.— Ib. .\m. Orn. IV, 1833, 96 ; pi. xxvi, f. I — In. Oss.Ciiv. 100.— Nuttaii., 



Man. II, 1834,49. 

 Egrella pealii, Gambel, Pr. A. N. Sc. IV, 1848, 127. 



Sp. Ch. — Color pure white. Terminal half of bill black. Length about 30 inches ; wing, 13 ; tarsus, 5.70 ; bill abovo, 

 4 inches. 



I lab. — Seaccastcf South Florida. 



Bill, with the culiuen concave along the middle ; the gonys convex, and rising from 



