BIRDS- — C0LUMB1DAE — SCARDAFELLA SQUAMOSA. 
G05 
List of specimens. 
Sex & 
age. 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
Sept. — , 1845 
s 
Sept. 20, 1843 
Sept. 16, 1842 
12.82 
10.75 
18.00 
17.50 
5.75 
do 
May 8, 1857 
Lieut. Bryan 
25 
Q 
Feb. 5, 
Cedar Island 
Dr. Hayden 
11.12 
16.75 
S 
July 7, 1856 
75 
$ 
8 
East 'of Fort Riley, K. T. . 
June 13, 1856 
6 
42 
10.75 
11.25 
14.50 
17.00 
5.75 
Eyes very dark brown. 
July — , 1853 
May 15, 1855 
Aug. 21, 1855 
82 
124 
13.00 
12.00 
17.00 
17.00 
6.00 
6.00 
Bill black, gums and 
Feet red, bill dark and 
purple, eyes black.. 
Perm, camp, Pecos Riv.. 
do 
Dec. 14, 1854 
8 
12.00 
17.12 
Mimb. to Rio Grande 
Bill Williams' Fork,N. M. 
Feb. 28, 1854 
Lieut. Whipple .... 
Maj. Emory 
181 
47 
May 13, 1856 
May 10, 1856 
9 
12.00 
15.00 
5.50 
June 2, 1853 
Lieut. Trowbridge. . 
111 
112 
SCARDAFELLA, Bonaparte. 
Scardafella, Bonap. Conspectus 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 Ectojnstes 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. 
SCAEDAFELLA SQUAMOSA, Bonap. 
Scaly Dove. 
Columba 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 the breast and throat to 
pale violaceous. All the feathers on the head and body abruptly margined with dark brown, except on the forehead and chin. 
