COLUMBID.E — THE PIGEONS — SCARDAFELLA. 519 



Scardafella inca, Bonaparte. 



THE INCA DOVE. 



ScanlafiUa squamosa, Baird, Birds N. Araer. 1858, 605. (Not of Temminck.) 



Scardafella inca, BoNAPABTE, Consp. 1850. — Elliot, B. N. A. II. pi. 37. — Bctciier, Pr. 



A. N. Sc. 1868. 



Sp. C'liAi!. Fcmrilr. Above ashy-olive, clianifing to purer ashy on tlie win^s. Be- 

 neath asliy-wliite, cliansing on tlie l)rcMst and tliroat to pale violaceous. All the feather.'i 

 on the head and buily abruptly margined with dark brown, e.xcept on the forehead and 



eliiu. All the quills, except the innermost tcrtials, orange-brown ; the outer margins and 

 tijjs dusk)- brown ; the under coverts orange-brown ; the axillars strongly tinged with 

 .sooty. Tail feathers blackish, tinged with gray above ; all (e.xcept the innermost) broadly 

 tipped with wdiite ; the exterior with the white extending backwarils on the outer web. 

 Female. Length, 8.00 ; wing, 3.75 ; tail, 410. Iris puri)le ; bill black ; ic'ct flesh-color. 



Ilab. Valley of Rio Grande ; westward to the Gulf of California, and south to Hon- 

 duras and Guateuiala. 



This species, now knowii to be an inhabitant of Southern Texas, is not rare 

 tliere, and is met with thronghout Mexico ; we liave no special account of it.s 

 habits, wliich are probably similar to those of Chmncr'jidia , though it is jier- 

 liajis not so terrestrial. It luis not yet been detected in Arizona. (Baird.) 



