464 peeisteeid^:. 



1. Scardafella squamosa. 



Picui pinima, Marcgr. Htst. Nat. Bras. p. 204. 



Columba striata, part., Jacq. Beitr. p. 34 (1784) ; Gm. S. N. i. p. 775. 



n. 18 (1788) (Venezuela). 

 Columba squamosa, Temm. fy Knip (nee Bonn.), Pig. i. fam. seconde, 



p. 127, pi. 59 (1808-11); Temm. Pig. et Gallin.i. pp. 336,484 



(1813) ; Vieill. N. D. xxvi. p. 379 (1818) ; Steph. Gen. Zool. xi. p. 90 



(1819) : Wied, Beise nach Bras. ii. pp. 160, 232 (1821) ; Vieill. 



Enc. Meth. p. 385 (1823) ; Beam. Vict. Sc. Nat. xl. p. 355 (1826) : 



Wayl. Syst. Av. Columba, sp. 104 (1827) ; Wied, Beitr. iv. p. 469 



(1832) ; Less. Compl. de Buff., Ois. viii. p. 65 (1837) ; id. op. cit. 



2nd ed. p. 287 (1838). 

 Chaemepelia squamosa, Sw. Zool. Journ. iii. p. 361 (1827). 

 Columba squammata, Less. Tr. d'Orn. p. 474 (1831). 

 Columbina squamosa, G. B. Gr. List Gallina B. M. p. 13 (1844) ; 



Bchnb. Syn. Av. f. 1409 (nee 1410, 1393) (1847). 

 Geopelia squamosa, Hartl. Syst. Verz. p. 98 (1844) ; Sehleg. Mus. 



P.-B. Columba?, p. 133 (1873). 

 Cbamsepelia squamosa, G. B. Gr. Gen. B. ii. p. 473, n. 6 (1845); 



Bchnb. Syn. Av. Columbaria-, Novit. t. 253 b. f. 3381 (1851) (ex 



Knip); G. B. Gr. List B. Brit. Mus. Columba;, p. 51 (1856); 



Taylor, Ibis, 1864, p. 94 ( Ciudad Bolivar, Orinoco; ; Gieb. This. 



Orn. i. p. 635 (part.) (1872). 

 CEna capensis (errore), Bchnb. Syn. Av. f. 1392 (1847). 

 (Ena squamosa, Bchnb. Av. Syst. Nat, p. xxv (1852). 

 Macropygia squamosa, auct. fide Bp. Consp. Av. ii. p. 85 (1854). 

 Scardafella squamosa, B p. Consp. Av. ii. p. 85(1854); id. Compt. 



Bend. xl. pp. 24, 220, n. 253 (1855) ; id. Coup d'ail Ordre Pig. 



pp. 43, 58, n. 253 (1855) ; id. Compt. Bend, xliii. p. 946 (1856); 



Bchnb. Tauben, i. p. 19, t. 250. f. 1392, t. 253. f. 1409, t. 253 6. 



f. 3381 (1862), ii. p. 163 (1862); Beinh. Vid. Med. Nat. 



For. 1870, p. 55; G. B. Gr. Hand-list. ii. p. 240, n. 9.I47 



(1870) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 277, 451, liv (1871) ; Soma, Mm. Nac. 



Lisb. Columba?, p. 22 (1873) ; Sclat. Sf Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. 



p. 133 (1873) ; Baird, Brew., \ Bid,,,,: Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii. 



p. 387 (1874) ; Salv. fy Godm. Ibis, 1880, p. 178 (Valencia) ; Forbes, 



Ibis, 1881, p. 356: Salv. Cat. B. Strickl. Coll. p. 547 (1882); 



Sclat. List Vert. An. 8th ed. p. 456 (1883) ; Ridgw. Man. N.Am. 



B. p. 215 (1887) : Sartert, Eat. Vogelsamml. p. 186 (1891) ; Allen, 



Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist. iv. p. 56 (1892) (Venezuela). 

 Columbula squamosa. Bun,,. Si/st. Ueb. Th. Bras., Yog. ii. p. 298 



(1856). 

 Micropelia squamosa, Hew. Sf Rchnw. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. 



p. 283 (1890). 



Adult male. Upper parts greyish brown ; lower parts white, with 

 a pinkish tinge on the sides and lower neck and also on the breast ; 

 each feather edged with a crescentic bar of black, except the 

 under tail-coverts, which are pure white ; upper wing-coverts light 

 brown, white towards the tips, and edged with black crescentic 

 bars ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts black ; quills brown, the 

 primaries have the iDner webs cinnamon except at the tip, which 

 is brown ; tertials greyish brown like the back, with a narrow 

 white edge on the outer web; under wing-coverts dark brown, 



