154 Additions to the Ornithology 



Further Additions to the Ornithology of the United States', 

 and Observations of the Nomenclature of certain species. 

 By Charles L. Bonaparte. Read November 6, 1826. 



Being constantly occupied with the study of North Ame- 

 rican Birds, I deem it adviseable to publish any discoveries or 

 observations I may make, however inconsiderable, in the 

 order in which they occur; so that they may hereafter be pro- 

 perly embodied in due time and place. With this view I 

 now submit to the Lyceum the following observations, which 

 the plan I have adopted for my " Genera and Synopsis," 

 would not allow me to introduce into that memoir. 



ARDEA. 



Ardea pealii, Nobis. Crested ; snowy-white ; bill flesh- 

 color ; the point and the legs black ; toes beneath yellow ; 

 tarsus more than five inches long. 



Adult, crest and neck-fringe large, of compact pointed 

 feathers; back with long straight filiform plumes, reaching 

 beyond the tail. 



Young, destitute of these ornaments. 



This nondescript species I dedicate to Mr. Titian Peale, 

 who not only first procured it, but declared his well founded 

 suspicions as to its being specifically distinct. 



Fettle's Egret Heron, Ardea Pealii, Nob. Am. Orn. Hi. 

 adult. 



Inhabits Florida, and probably the analogous climates of 

 America. Closely allied to the A. candidissima, Gmel. and 

 perhaps still more to the European A. garzetla ! Interme- 

 diate between these two so closely-related species. 



I add here for comparison, the essential distinctive phrases 

 of the two other North American white Egrets. 



Ardea candidissima, Gmel. Crested ; snowy-white ; bill and 

 feet black ; toes yellow, tarsus less than four inches long. 



