BIRDS—COLUMBIDAE—SCARDAFELLA SQUAMOSA. 
605 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex & 
age. 
Locality. 
When col¬ 
lected. 
Whence obtuined. 
Orig. 
No. 
Collected by— 
Length. 
Stretch 
of wings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
pppt. 1845 
A 
Sept. 20, 1843 
12.82 
18.00 
5.75 
O 
Sept. 16,1842 
10.75 
17.50 
06 
May 8, 1857 
25 
W. S. Wood. 
• 
V 
1854 . 
1854. 
11.12 
16.75 
Eyes black ... 
July 7, 1856 
75 
W. S. Wood. 
7*>9K 
6 
A 
June 13, 1856 
6 
W. S. Wood..,.. 
10.75 
14.50 
4109. 
O 
•7\ 
42 
11.25 
17.00 
5.75 
Eyes very dark brown. 
8754 
o 
July —, 1853 
5077 
4360 
Dr. Swift, U. S. A... 
5078 
May 15,1855 
82 
13.00 
17.00 
6.00 
Bill black, gums and 
feet red. 
5076 
Penn, camp, Pecos Riv.. 
124 
12.00 
17. CO 
6.00 
Feet red, bill dark and 
purple, eyes black.. 
5080 
May 9, 1855 
5079 
8757 
Dec. 14,1854 
8 
12.00 
17.12 
8758 
8748 
Bill Williams 5 Fork,N. M. 
Feb. 28, 1854 
181 
4560 
4559 
47 
5561 
838 
5560 
o 
May 10, 1856 
12.00 
15.00 
5.50 
8749 
V 
8751 
June 2. 1853 
8755 
111 
8756 
112 
SCARDAFELLA, Bonaparte. 
Scardafella, Bonap. Conspectus Av. II, 1854, 85. Type Columba squamosa, Temm. 
Ch.—B ill 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, Bonap. 
Scaly Dove. 
Columba squamosa, (Temminck,) Wagler, Isis, 1831, 519. 
Chamaepelia squamosa, Gray, Genera.— Cabanis, (fide Bp.) 
Oena squamosa, “ Reich. leones 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. 
