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SCRATCHIXG BIRDS — IJASORES. 



part of Lower California. Tlie eggs and nest resemble tho§e of C. jiasserina, 

 and the habits are probably identical. (Baird.) 



Genus SCARDAFELLA, Bux.vrAnTE. 



Scanhfella, BoN'.iPARTE, Consp. Av. II. 1854, 85. (Tyiic, Culumhii squamosa, Tkmm.) 



Gen. Cii.\r. Bill lengthened ; culmen more than half the length of head measured 

 from the frontal feathers. Feet as in Cliantajjclla. "Wings -with the tertials nearly as 



long as the primaries ; shorter, however, than the first primary. Tail considerahly longer 

 than the wings ; much graduated ; the feathers narrow, linear, or tapering towards the 

 end. 



This remarkable type is a miniature oi Edoinstcs or Zcnaidum in respect 

 to the tail, Avhicli is even longer compared with the wings. 



Two species are known, the (S'. inca and a Soutli American ally, S. squa- 

 mosa, similar in color, but differing in a greater intensity of the dark bor- 

 ders to the feathers. 



