. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and Lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds. 570 SYSTEMA TIC SYNOPSIS. — COL UMBM — PEBISTEB^. 199. SCARDAFEL'LA. (Italian, signalizing the scaly appearance of the feathers, due to their color.) Shell Doves. Tail
. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and Lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds. 570 SYSTEMA TIC SYNOPSIS. — COL UMBM — PEBISTEB^. 199. 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 ChamespeUa. 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 simOar. Remarkable genus, of 2 tropical Am. species, one reaching our border. 549. S. in'ca. (Inea or yncas, a Peruvian title.) Inca Dove. Scaled Dove. $ 9 , adult: Above, grayish-brown with the usual olive shade, anteriorly also vrith a slight "ashes of roses" hue; below, pale ashy-Mac, changing to oohraoeous 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. 200. Fig. 393. — Blue-beaded Quail Dove, J uat. size. (From Brelim.) wings black and chestnut; outer secondaries blackish with chestnut central areas, gradually diminishing tUl 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 Tine. 9 similar to $ ; young similar, but vrith little or no ashy-rosy, and sprin
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