390 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



SCARDAFELLA INCA (Lesson). 



INCA DOVE. 



Adult male. — General color of upper parts grayish brown (grayish 

 drab to light hair brown, passmg into pale ecru-drab on forehead, the 

 wing-coverts paler grayish brown, sometimes approaching dull grayish 

 white, especially on distal coverts; each feather of crown, occiput, 

 hindneck, back, scapulars, wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail- 

 coverts rather broadly margmed terminally with sooty black, pro- 

 ducing a conspicuous barred or scaled effect; alulae dull black with 

 chestnut shafts; primary coverts chestnut, broadly margined termi- 

 nally with black; primaries chestnut, with terminal portion dark 

 grayish brown, this increasing in extent on outer webs of outermost 

 quiUs; distal secondaries chestnut broadly edged and tipped with 

 dusky, the more proximal ones mostly dusky, with pale edgings; 

 middle pair of rectrices grayish brown, usually tipped or terminally 

 margined with dusky; second pair similar but with tip more exten- 

 sively dusky, the third with still more of dusky and, usually, with 

 more or less admixture of white on terminal portion; remaining 

 rectrices dull black or dusky passing into grayish brown basally and 

 broadly tipped with white, the white increasmg in extent toward 

 the outermost, on which it occupies approximately the distal half of 

 inner web and two-thirds, or more, of outer web; sides of head and 

 neck, foreneck, and chest pinkish pale ecru-drab to dull pale grayish 

 vinaceous, passing into dull white on chin and upper throat and 

 into very pale buff or cream-buff on posterior under parts, the feathers 

 (except on chin and throat, rarely foreneck also) margined terminally 

 with sooty black, the bars thus formed broadest on sides and flanks, 

 narrowest (often very narrow, sometimes obsolete) on chest and 

 foreneck; proximal under wing-coverts dusky grayish brown or sooty 

 blackish, the remainder chestnut, occasionally margined terminally 

 with black ; bill blackish ; iris dull orange to bright red ; legs and feet 

 pale flesh color to carmine-pink; length (skins), 193-222 (205); wing, 



squamosa Gray, Gen. Birds, ii, 1845, 473. — Oena squamosa Reichenbach, Av. Syst. 

 Nat., 1852, p. XXV. — [Scardafella] squamosa Bonaparte, Consp. Av., ii, 1857, 85 (Bra- 

 zil). — Scardafella squamosa Salvadori, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxi, 1893, 464, part (Rio 

 Grande do Sul, Bahia, Ceara, Pernambuco, and Jose Dias, Brazil). — Columbula 

 squamosa Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 298. — [Micropelia] squamosa 

 Heine and Reichenow, Nom. Mus. Hein. Orn., 1890, 283 (Brazil). — Columba squam- 

 mata Lesson, Traits d'Om., 1831, 474 (Brazil). — Scardafella squammata squammata 

 Hellmayr, Novit. Zool., xv, 1908, 92 (Goyaz, Brazil; crit.). — Scardafella r[idgwayi] 

 hrasiliensis Beebe, Zoologica, i, no. 1, Sept. 25, 1907, 21, figs. 5c, 6c (Brazil; coll. Am. 

 Mus. N. H.). — [Scardafella] brasiliensis Brabourne and Chubb, Birds South Am., i, 

 Dec, 1912, 17 (s. e. Brazil). 



