BIBDS — COLUMUIDAE — SCAliDAl'ELLA SQUAMOSA. 



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lAst of specimens. 



SCARDAFELLA, Bonaparte. 



Scardafelta, Eovap. Conspecttis Av. II, 1854, 85. Typa CoJuniia squamosa, Temm. 



Cu. — Bill lenglhened ; culmcn more than half the length of head measured from tlie frontal feathers. Feet as in Chamaepelia. 

 Wings with the tertials nearly as long as the primaries ; shorter, however, tlian the first primary. Tail considerably longer 

 than the wings ; much graduated, (of fourteen feathers.') ; tlie feathers narrow, linear, or tapering towards the end. 



This remarkable type is a miniature of Edopistes or Zenaidwa in respect to the tail, which 

 is even longer compared with the wings. The only specimen before me appears to have had 

 fourteen tail feathers, but of this I cannot speak with certainty. 



SCARDAFELLA SQUAMOSA, Bonap. 



Scaly Dore. 



Columba squamosa, (Temminck,) Wagler, Isis, 1831, 519. 

 Chamaeptlia squamosa, Gray, Genera. — Caoanis, (fide Bp.) 

 Oena squamosa, " Reich. Icones Av. tab. 253, fig. 3381." 

 ScardaftUa squamosa, Bonap. Consp. II, 1854, 85. Typo. 

 Female. — Above ashy olive, changing to purer ashy on the wings. Beneath ashy white, changing on the breast and throat to 

 pale violaceous. All the feathers on the head and body abruptly margined wilh dark brown, except on the forehead and chin. 



