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inner webs of quills rufous; tail (except middle feathers) blackish; lower parts 
chiefly vinaceous. Adult females much duller, the lower parts dull light vinaceous- 
grayish, or light brownish. 
a’, Axillars and under wing-coverts chestnut-rufous. 
Adult male: Head, neck, and lower parts pinkish vinaceous, the feathers 
(81.) of the breast dusky grayish brown centrally, and those of head and neck 
margined with a darker shade of the ground-color; occiput and nape 
bluish gray, or glaucous; upper parts in general plain grayish brown, 
the innermost wing-coverts (which are often vinaceous, like lower 
parts) marked with small spots of dark metallic violet. Adult female: 
Similar to male, but colors much duller, the vinaceous replaced by light 
brownish gray (sometimes slightly vinaceous). Young: Somewhat like 
adult female, but still duller, or more grayish, the feathers, especially of 
upper parts, narrowly margined terminally with whitish. Length 6.00- 
7.00, wing 3.10-3.60, tail 2.60-2.80, exposed culmen, .41~.48, tarsus .60-.66. 
Eggs .85 X .65. Hab. Southern Atlantic and Gulf States, from Florida 
to South Carolina (casually to District of Columbia), and Louisiana. 
320. C. passerina terrestris Coapm. Ground Dove. 
@. Axillars and most of under wing-coverts black. 
Adult male: Above vinaceous-chestnut, becoming bluish gray on top of 
head, and light vinaceous on forehead ; lower parts plain deep vinaceous, 
paler on chin. Adult female: Above dull brownish, sometimes tinged 
with rusty ; lower parts plain grayish brown, or brownish gray. Wing 
about 3.50-3.70. Hab. Middle America and northern South America, 
north to Orizaba and Colima, Mexico. 
C. rufipennis (Bonap.). Rufous Ground Dove.! 
Gents SCARDAFELLA Bonapartz. (Page 211, pl. LXIL,, fig. 5.) 
Species. 
Common CHaracters.—Grayish brown above, each feather with a terminal 
border or crescentic bar of dusky ; inner web of quills, except terminal portion, 
rufous; under wing-coverts partly black ; lower parts pale grayish vinaceous, pass- 
ing into white or buff posteriorly, marked like upper parts; lateral tail-feathers 
with terminal half white, the rest black. 
a, Larger wing-coverts, belly, and lower tail-coverts white; breast distinctly sqva- 
mated with dusky; wing about 4.00, tail 4.00. Hab. South America (Brazil, 
Venezuela, eastern Ecuador, etc.). 
S. squamosa (TEMM.). Scaled Dove. 
1 Talpacotia rufipennie Bonar., Consp. ii. 1854, 79. 
2 Columba squamosa Temm., Pig. et Gal. i. 1811, pl. 59. Scardafella squamosa Bonar., Consp. ii. 1854, 85. 
