660 BIRDS FROM MARGARITA— ROBINSON. vol.xviii. 



I can not now determine. There are two males in tlie collection from 

 Margarita ; one has red at the base of the bill, the other yellow ; the red- 

 billed one has dark under tail-coverts, while those in the yellow-billed 

 one are lighter. An adult male from Curacao collected on this trip is 

 similar to the yellow-billed Margarita bird, but the bill is somewhat 

 brighter yellow. — C. W. E.] 



26. COLUMBIGALLINA RUFIPENNIS (Bonaparte). 

 EUFOUS GROUND DOVE. 



Native name " tortola de monte." 



I saw in all about a dozen individuals and these were associated with 

 flocks of the preceding species in the fields on the mountain slopes in 

 rear of El Yalle. 



I Examples of this species from Margarita do not differ from those 

 from other localities. — C. W. E.] 



27. SCARDAFELLA RIDGWAYI, new species. 

 RIDGWAY'S SCALED DOVE. 



i^ative name "potoco,'' from its note of three syllables. 



Without doubt this was the most abundant bird on the island and 

 was found in all parts. They came to the water holes in swarms and I 

 once secured nine at a shot. Like other doves, they strike their wings 

 rapidly ui)on rising, but instead of giving out a ^vhistling sound the 

 noise is a rattle like that of dry seeds shaken in a gourd. Beak dark, 

 irides red, feet flesh. At Quanta I saw great numbers of scaled doves 

 with the same note as these,- but got none for comparison. 



[T2/j?e.— Male adult, :N^o. 151644, U.S.N.M.; Margarita, June 30, 1895; 

 Wirt Eobinson; collector's No. 302. Upper parts (except forehead, 

 forecrowu, wing-coverts, and primaries), including middle pair of rec- 

 trices, brown— between broccoli and hair brown, the feathers all tipped 

 with dull greenish or bluish black, narrowest on nape and hind crown; 

 primaries brownish black externally, dark hazel on inner webs and at 

 base of outer webs, appearing on exposed portion of wing as a small, 

 irregular spot, just beyond primary coverts; secondaries, dark brown- 

 ish black, narrowly edged with white ou the outer web; feathers of 

 wingcoverts mainly w^hite on outer web, brown on inner web, and 

 broadly tipped with black; primary coverts and alula, dull black; fore- 

 head, forecrown, superciliary line, and sides of head, pale pinkish white, 

 lighter on lores and ear-coverts, the feathers mostly narrowly edged 

 with black; throat white, passing into pale vinaceous on breast, sides 

 of breast, and sides of neck, the feathers ou breast with faint indica- 

 tions of black edges, more pronounced on lower part and on sides, 

 remainder of under parts white, with a wash of pale fawn color on sides, 

 all the feathers edged with white, these edges broadest on lower breast 

 and sides of body. Five outer pairs of rectrices black basally, the 

 terminal part white; on the outer feather the white occupies about 1.60 

 inches; this decreases by "steps" to the fifth, which has only a slight 



