BIRDS — COLUMBIDAE — SCAEDAFELLA SQUAMOSA. 



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List of specimens. 



SCARDAFELLA, Bonaparte. 



Scardafella, BoNAP. Censpectus Av. II, 1854, 85. Type Columba squamosa, Temm. 



Ch. — Bill lengthened ; culmen more than half the length of head measured from the frontal feathers. Feet as in Chamaepelia. 

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

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



This remarkable type is a miniature of Ectopistes or Zenaidura 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, Bo nap. 



Scaly Dove. 



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

 Chamaepelia squamosa. Gray, Genera. — Cabanis, (fide Bp.) 

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

 Scardafella squamosa, Bonap. Consp. II, 1854, 85. Type. 



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

 pale violaceous. All the feathers on tlio head and body abruptly margined willi da.Tk brown, except on the forclicad and cliin. 



