542 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER.-- LUJISIANA HERON. 
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. — TRINGA SEMIPALMATA — 
Fic, 255. 
Peale’s Museum, No. 4023. 
TRINGA SEMIPALMATA. —Wi.s0N. 
Tringa semipalmata, Bonap. Synop. p. 316. ois 
Turs is one of the smallest of its tribe, and seems to have been 
entirely overlooked, or confounded with another which it much re-- 
sembles, [tringa usilla;) and with whom it is often found associated. 
Its half-web ot feet, however, are sufficient marks of distinction 
petween the two. It arrives and departs with the preceding species ; 
flies in flocks with the Stints, Purres, and a few others; and is some- 
times seen at a considerable distance from the sea, on the sandy shores 
of our fresh-water lakes. On the 23d of September, 1 met with a 
small flock of these birds in Burlington Bay, on Lake Champlain. 
They are numerous along the sea-shores of New Jersey, but retire to .- 
the south on the approach of cold weather. 
This species is six inches long, and twelve in extent; the bill is 
black, an inch long, and very slightly bent; crown and body above, 
dusky brown, the plumage edged with ferruginous, and tipped with 
white; tail and wings, nearly of a length; sides of the rump, white ; 
rump. and tail-coverts, black; wing-quills, dusky black, shafted, and 
banded with white, much in the manner of the Least, Snipe ; over the 
eye a line of white ; lesser coverts, tipped with white; legs and feet, 
blackish ash, the latter half webbed. Males-and females alike in color. 
‘These birds varied greatly in their size, some being scarcely five 
inches and a half in length, and the bill not more than three quarters ; 
others measured nearly seven inches in the whole length, and the bill 
upwards of an inch. In their general appearance, they greatly re- 
semble the Stints or Least Snipe; but unless we allow that the same 
species may sometimes have the toes half webbed, and sometimes 
divided to the origin, — and this not in one or two solitary instances, 
but in whole flocks, which would be extraordinary indeed, —we can 
not avoid classing this as a new and distinct species. 
LOUISIANA HERON.—ARDEA LUDOVICIANA, — Fie. 256. 
Peale’s Museum, Nv. 3750. 
ARDEA LUDOVICIANA. —Wiison, 
Ardea leucogaster, Ord’s Reprint, Part viii. p. 1.~ Ardea Ludoviciana, Boriap, 
~ Synop. p. 304. 
‘T's is a rare and delicately-formed species; occasionally found on 
the swampy river shores of South Carolina, but more frequently along 
