GLAUCIDIUM. 35 
Capt. Bendire gives a résumé of the little that is known of the habits of this 
species, chiefly taken from Euler’s notes made in Brazil. A hen bird and egg were 
secured by Mr. G. B. Sennett’s collector at Cafion de los Caballeros, near Victoria in 
Tamaulipas. The nest was in a hollow tree growing at the base of the high mountains 
of that district. Other eggs were subsequently obtained from a nest in an old 
Woodpecker’s hole in a mesquit tree near Brownsville, Texas. 
B. Pileus guttatus. 
9. Glaucidium gnoma. 
Glaucidium gnoma, Wag]. Isis, 1832, p. 275°; Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, pp. 38°, 259, t. 1. ff. 1, 2°; 
Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. ii. p. 194°. 
Glaucidium ferrugineum, Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 297”. 
Glaucidium infuscatum, var. gnoma, Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 298°. 
Glaucidium ridgwayi, juv., Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 477. 
Glaucidium cobanense, Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, pp. 259, 260 ®. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. ii. p. 199, t. 18. £.1°. 
Glaucidium fisheri, Nelson & Palmer, Auk, xi. p. 41 an 
Supra murinum, capite toto summo grisescentiore albo guttato; torque nuchali celato albo, rufo marginato 3. 
scapularibus extus albo maculatis, alis extus cervino-albo maculatis; cauda nigricante, septies albo 
transfasciata, striis medialiter interruptis: subtus album, lateribus fusco striatis. Long. tota circa 6:0, 
alee 3°6, caude 2°5, (Deser. maris ex Sierra Madre de Tepic, Mexico. Mus. nostr.) 
Forma hepatica. Supra rufescens, fere unicolor, capite summo indistincte fulvo guttato ; cauda nigricante,. 
fulvescenti-albido septies transfasciata, fasciis medialiter interruptis: subtus alba, lateribus rufo striatis. 
(Descr. exempl. ex Coban, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Mexico (Dr. Petz+), Mazatlan (Grayson * °), Las Pefias in Jalisco (Dr. A.C. Buller, 
in mus. Rothschild), Sierra Madre de Tepic, Sierra Nevada de Colima (W. B. 
Richardson), Colima (Xantus °), Tenango del Valle (W. B. Richardson), Chimalpa 
(Ferrari-Perez), Puebla (Nelson & Palmer), Venta de Zopilote, Omilteme 
(Mrs. H. H. Smith), Comitan in Chiapas (W. B. Richardson); GUATEMALA, 
Coban (Bouvier8®, O. S. & F. D. G.), Choctum, Duefias, Volcan de Fuego 
(0. S. & F. D. G.). 
This species may be distinguished from G. griseiceps 
9°5 inches instead of 2°0, and by the greater number of bands upon it. 
In North America it has an ally in G. californicum, which has often been confused 
with it. G. californicum, which does not seem to occur in Mexico, is much more 
uniformly grey above, the head and back are more distinctly spotted, the tail measures 
3:0 inches, the sides of the head, the dark gular patch, and the flanks are more dis- 
tinctly spotted. Moreover, so far as we know, G. californicum has no hepatic phase. 
alenoides the present species may be readily distinguished by the 
by its longer tail, measuring 
From true G. ph 
head being spotted instead of striped. 
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