SCARDAFELLA INCA. 
LITTLE DOVE. 
SCARDAFELLA SQUAMOSA. Baird. B. of N. Amer., p. G05. 
SCARDAFELLA INCA. Bonp. Consp. Gen. At., vol. 3, p. 85. 
This pretty little dove is a native of Mexico, Guatemala, and other parts of Central America, but has lately been procured at Laredo, Texas, 
by Dr. H. B. Butcher, who sent many specimens to the Smithsonian Institution, and it is from some of these that my plate was drawn. This species 
is a diminutive representative of the Wild Pigeon, ( Etojnstes Migrator ia,) although it does not possess the beautiful changeable colors which 
cause the neck of that species to be so brilliant and attractive ; but it closely resembles its relative in the length and markings of the tail- 
feathers. 
In the birds of North America by Messrs. Baird, Oassin and Lawrence, Prof. Baird has inadvertently described this species as Scardafella 
Squamosa, his only specimen, a female in poor condition, having been obtained by Lieut. Couch, at Cadareita, New Leon, Mexico 
I am happy to have been able to give the first figures of the S. Inca, from specimens obtained within our limits. 
No accounts of its economy or habits has been recorded by any of the naturalists who have obtained it in its native country. 
The male has the head light gray, each feather edged with dark brown. Entire upper part, rufous brown, all the feathers edged with 
black. Throat, white. Upper part of breast, tinged with rosy. Primaries, rufous ; lower half of outer web and tips, dark brown. Abdomen 
and flanks, yellowish brown, all the feathers tipped with dark brown, lightest on the breast. Middle tail feathers like the back, the next three 
black, two following tipped with white, outer one white, black at the base. Bill, blackish brown. Feet, red. 
Female like the male, wanting the red of the breast. Figures life-size. Plant, Rosa Rubiginosa. Sweet Briar. 
