542 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER.- -LOUISIANA HERON. 
SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. —TRINGA SEMIPALMATA. — 
Fie, 255. 
Peale’s Museum, No. 4023. 
TRINGA SEMIPALMATA. — Whitson. 
Tringa semipalmata, Bonap. Synop. p. 316. 
Turis is one of the smallest of its tribe, and seems to have been 
entirely overlooked, or confounded with another which it much re- 
sembles, ea ae stlla,) and with whom it is often found associated. 
Its half-webbed feet, however, are sufficient marks of distinction 
between 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. 
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LOUISIANA HERON.—ARDEA LUDOVICIANA.—Fice. 256. 
Peale’s Museum, Ne. 3750. 
ARDEA LUDOVICIANA. —Wison, 
Ardea leucogaster, Ord’s Reprint, Part viii. p. 1.— Ardea Ludoviciana, Bonap. 
Synop. p. 304. : 
Tats is a rare and delicately-formed species; occasionally found on 
the swampy river shores of South Carolina, but more frequently along 
