466 peri&terid^;. 



Nac. Mexico, i. p. 105, n. 493 (1878) ; Ridgw. Cat. p. 466 (1880) ; 

 Sumichrast, Naturaleza, v. p. 232, n. 31 (1881) ; Salv. Cat. B. 

 Strickl. Coll. p. 247 (1882); Coues, Check-list, 2nd ed. p. 92, 

 n. 549 (1882) ; Salv. P. Z. S. 1883, p. 328 (Acapulco) ; Coues, 

 Key N. Am. B. 2nd ed. p. 570 (1884) ; A. O. U. Check-list N. 

 A. Birds, p. 181, n. 321 (1886) ; F.-Perez, U.S. Nat. Mm. ix. 

 p. 175 (Mexico) (1886) ; Ridgw. Man. N. Am. B. p. 216 (1887) ; 

 Trutr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 39 (1889) ; Herrera, Naturaleza, (2) i. p. 327, 

 n. 185 (1890) ; id. Apunt. de Omitol. p. 21, n. 123 (18— ?) ; Bendire, 

 Life-Hist. N. A. Birds, p. 152 (1892); Attwater, Auk, 1892, 

 p. 233 (Texas). 



Scardafella squamosa, Baird {nee auct.), B. N. Am. p. 605 (1858). 



Geopelia inca, Schleg. Mm. P.-B. Columbae, p. 133 (1873). 



Scardafella squamosa, var. inca, Cones, Check-list, n. 375 (1874). 



Micropelia inca, Ilein. fy Rchnw. Nomencl. Mus. Hein. Orn. p. 283 

 (1890). 



Adult male. Upper parts, including all the wing-coverts, greyish 

 brown, each feather tipped with a crescentic bar of blackish ; fore- 

 head and chin whitish ; lower parts pale vinous, passing into buff 

 on belly, flanks, and lower tail-coverts, the latter with a greyish 

 mark along the middle ; chin, throat, and upper part of chest 

 immaculate, but feathers of breast and abdomen tipped with blackish 

 bars, broadest on flanks ; bastard-wing blackish brown ; primary- 

 coverts cinnamon, broadly tipped with blackish ; primaries cinna- 

 mon, with brown tips, and the outer ones also with brown outer 

 webs ; secondaries brown, cinnamon along the middle ; greater 

 wing-coverts slightly paler than the others ; under surface of the 

 wing cinnamon, but the tips of the quills brown and the inner 

 under wing-coverts black ; central pair of rectrices uuiform greyish 

 brown, next two pairs greyish brown, darker towards the tip, the 

 three outer pairs black, with the apical portion white : " irides 

 reddish; legs and feet pale flesh-colour" (C. C. Taylor). Total 

 length about 8 inches, wing 3*6, tail 4, bill 054, tarsus 0-65. 



Female. Similar to the male, only somewhat duller and smaller. 



Young. Similar to the adult bird, but with no vinous colour 

 beneath and with browner upper parts, mottled with huffish white 

 near the black edges. 



Bab. Rio Grande Valley, Arizona, Lower California, Mexico, and 

 south to Nicaragua. 



a. Ad. sk. La Paz, Lower California. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



b. $ ad. sk. Laredo, Texas (H . B. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Butcher). 



c. J ad. sk. Hidalgo, Texas, April (F. B. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Armstrong). 



d. Ad. sk. Corpus Christi, Texas, May Salvin-Godman Coll. 



( F. B. Armstrong), 

 e.f. d 2 ad.sk. Macosari, Sonora, Mexico, Mar. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(J. C. Cahoon). 

 g,h, cJjad.sk. Rio Mayo, Sonora, Mexico, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



May (W. Llogd). 

 i. S ad. sk. Guaymas, Mexico, Jan. (M. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



A Frazar). 



