BIRDS — ARDEIDAE DEM1EGEETTA PEALII. 
Comparative measurements of Ardeae. 
061 
9469 
2735 
9299 
10323 
5108 
do. 
9298 
5107 
10324 
5775 
Dcniii'L'n'ita pealii . 
Demiegretta rufa 
Demiegretta ludoviciana 
do 
Cai/.iiia ramliili-Miiia 
.... do 
Herodias egretta. 
Herodias var. ealil'orniea 
Ardea herodias. . 
Ardea wai la! i.' in a 1 1 1 1 1 1 . 
Audubonia occidentals, 
Florida coerulea. 
Eastern U. S. 
do 
Matamoras 
Eastern U. S. . 
Cape Florida. . 
.do. 
Eastern U. S 
Calcasieu Pass, La. . 
Cadereita, Mex 
do 
Tamaulipas 
Sacramento Valley . . 
Eastern U. S 
Prairie MerRouge,La, 
Eastern U. S 
Indianola, Texas 
..I... 
Prairie Aler Rou^e,La. 
Texas 
Texas 
California? .... 
San Diego, Cal. 
.do. 
Cape Flattery, W.T... 
Fort Stcilacoom, W.T 
Sacramento Valley. . . 
Fort Brown, Texas . . . 
Carlisle, Penn.. 
do 
Mimbres to Rio Grande 
■Mexico 
South Florida 
.do. 
Indian Key, FJa.... 
Indian Key, Fla.... 
Florida . . . 
Liberty county, Ga. 
.,1... 
Florida 
Indian Key , 
oQ 
30.31) 
29.30 
24.00 
20.80 
27.0.1 
26.00 
23.00 
41.00 
33.00 
14.70 
39.00 
33.30 
43.00 
43.00 
43.70 
45.80 
42.20 
42.00 
43.00 
30.50 
*49.00 
22.00 
21.50 
19.80 
19.50 
13.50 
13.00 
12.50 
10.70 
10.26 
10.50 
J 0.20 
9.60 
10.00 
10.12 
10.60 
10.70 
15.50 
14 00 
14.80 
14.70 
16.00 
14.20 
14.00 
15.20 
15.00 
15.70 
17.00 
17.00 
16.50 
19.30 
20.20 
18.60 
17.40 
18.00 
18.30 
18.50 
19.20 
17.00 
20.70 
19.50 
18.00 
11.00 
12.00 
11.00 
10.50 
11.00 
DEMIEGKETTA PEALII, Baird, 
Peale"s Egret. 
Jlrdeapealii, Bonap. Syn. 1828, 304.— Ib. Am. Orn. IV, 1833, 9G ; pi. xxvi, f. 1,— Ib. Oss. Ctiv. 100.— Nuttall, 
Man. II, 1834, 49. 
Egretta 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 above, 
4 inches. 
Ilab.— Seacoast of South Florida. 
Bill, with the culmen concave along the middle ; the gonys convex, and rising from 
