BIRDS — ARDEIDAE — DEMIEGEETTA PEALII. 



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Comparative measurements of Ardeae. 



* About. 



DEMIEGEETTA PEALII, Baird. 

 Peale's Egret. 



Ardeapealii, Bonap. Syn. 1828, 304.— Ib. Am. Orn. IV, 1833, 96 ; pi. xxvi, f. 1 — Ib. Oss. Cuv. 100.— Nuttall, 



Man. II, 1834,49. 

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



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

 4 inches. 

 Hob. — Seaooastof South Florida. 



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



