SGARDAFELLA INCA.
LITTLE BOTE.
SCARDAFELLA SQUAMOSA. Baibd. B. of N. Ainer., p. 605.
SOARDAFELLA INCA. Bonp. Oonsp. Gen. Av., vol. 3, p. 85.
T„ „ „ „ tty little dove is a native o f Mexico, Guatemala, and otter parts of Central Atooriea, bat has lately boon proourml at Laredo, Texas,
by D, II B Bntoher, tvho sent many specimens to the Smithsonian Institution, a id it is from sonic of these that my plate was drawn. This species
is a diminutive representative of the Wild Pigeon, ( » p i s t e Mjhdlori,,,) although it does not possess the beautiful changeable colors which
cause theneck of that species to b e so brilliant and attractive; but it closely resembles its relative.in the length and markings of the tail-
1Cnllo tho birds of North America by Messrs. Baird, Cassia 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. Coueu, at Cadarelta, New Leon, Mexico.
I am happy to have been able to give the first figures o f 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 hm, the head light gray, each feather edged with dark brown, Entire upper part, rufous brown, all the fo.thms edged with
black Throat, white. Upper par. of breast, tinged with rosy. Primaries, rnfoas; lower half o f ontar wob and tips, dint brown. Abdom.u
and flanks yeUowish brown, all thS 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. Poet, red.
Female like the male, wanting the red o f the breast. Figures life-aise. Plant, P.osa Rubigmosa. Sweet Briar.