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200. 
570 SYSTEMATIC SYNOPSIS. —COLUMBZ — PERISTERZE. 
SCARDAFEL'LA. (Italian, signalizing the scaly appearance of the feathers, due to their 
color.) SHELL Doves. Tail of peculiar shape, double-rounded, median and lateral feathers 
both shorter than intermediate ones; all narrow and tapering; 12 in number. Wings as in 
Chamepelia. Bill very slender, rather long, black. Feet not typically zenaidine ; tarsus very 
short, slightly feathered above. No blue-black spots on head or wings ; no iridescence on neck. 
Size very small. Sexes similar. Remarkable genus, of 2 tropical Am. species, one reaching 
our border. 
S.in’ca. (Inca or yncas, a Peruvian title.) Inca Dove. Scatep Dove. ¢ 9, adult: 
Above, grayish-brown with the usual olive shade, anteriorly also with a slight ‘‘ashes of roses” 
hue; below, pale ashy-lilac, changing to ochraceous on the belly and crissum —nearly all the 
plumage marked with black crescentic edges of the feathers, producing the shelly or scaly 
appearance. Primaries and bastard quills intense chestnut, with blackish ends; lining of 
Fic. 393, — Blue-headed Quail Dove, } nat. size. (From Brehm.) 
wings black and chestnut; outer secondaries blackish with chestnut central areas, gradually 
diminishing till the inner secondaries assimilate with the color of the back. Middle tail- 
feathers like back ; three lateral ones basally plumbeous, then black, then broadly tipped with 
white — the black running out into the white as a shaft line. Q similar tof ; young similar, 
but with little or no ashy-rosy, and sprinkled with white on upper parts. Length about 8.00; 
wing 3.75 ; tail more; bill 0.45 ; tarsus 0.50; middle toe and claw 0.87. A very pretty little 
dove, with mahogany wings upholstered in shell-figured ashes-of-roses velvet; a curious mini- 
ature of the.common dove in form. Mexico to Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, along the 
borders. Nest in bushes; eggs 2, white, 0.900.70. 
GEOTRY'GON. (Gr. yéa, gea, the earth; tpuyav, trugon, a cooer.) Lustre Dovss. Tail 
about as lung as wings, a little rounded, of 12 broad rounded feathers, with curved shafts. 
