36 ASIONID. 
Regarding Dr. Sharpe’s G. cobanense, which is no doubt a strongly hepatic form of 
some species of Glaucidium, we are of opinion that it is that phase of G. gnoma, the 
head being but slightly marked; it may be distinguished from the hepatic phase of 
G. phalenoides by the colour of the tail, which resembles that of the grey phase, and 
is not evenly and regularly banded as in the hepatic G. phalenoides. 
Mexican birds of this species differ slightly from Guatemalan examples in having 
larger scapular and wing-spots, but the variation is slight and merely worthy of note. 
3. Glaucidium griseiceps. 
Glaucidium pumilum, Ridgw. Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvi. p. 57 (partim, nec Temm.) °*. 
Glaucidium griseiceps, Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, pp. 41, 259, t. 2. £. 22; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. ii. p. 196°, 
G. gnome similis, sed cauda breviore, fasciis tantum quatuor aut quinque incompletis notata ; striis abdominis 
plerumque rufescentioribus. Long. tota circa 6-0, ale 3:4, caude 2°15. (Deser. exempl. ex Choctum, 
Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. British Honpvras, Southern Pine Ridge, western district (Blancaneaur) ; GUATE- 
MALA (Bouvier 3), Chisec, Choctum (0.8. & F. D.G.); Panama, Veraguas (Arcé *). 
This Owl was formerly considered to be identical with G. pumilum of South 
America, but Dr. Sharpe separated it on the ground of its greyer head*. Its range 
does not extend much beyond the department of Vera Paz, though Blancaneaux 
obtained a specimen in Western British Honduras, faunistically an extension of 
Eastern Guatemala. Southwards we trace it to the State of Panama, though it has 
not yet been detected in Nicaragua or Costa Rica. 
4, Glaucidium jardinii. 
Phalenopsis jardinii, Bp. Compt. Rend. xli. p. 654°. 
Glaucidium jardinii, Cab. J. £. Orn. 1869, p. 208°; Ridgw. Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvi. p. 59°; 
Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 4154; Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, pp. 43°, 259°; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 
ii. p. 2077; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 125°. 
Supra murino-brunneum (capite dilutiore), omnino pallide cervino maculatum; torque cervicali albida, fulvo 
marginata; alis extus cervino maculatis: subtus gula et pectore medio albis, facie, torque gulari, pectoris 
lateribus et hypochondriis fulvo et nigro variegatis; cauda nigricante, fasciis sex maculosis albis 
transfasciata. Long. tota circa 6°0, ale 2°6, caude 2°15. (Descr. maris ex Rancho Redondo, Costa 
Rica. Mus. nostr.) 
Hab. Costa Rica (Van Patten *), Cartago (Zeledon®), Rancho Redondo, Irazu (C. F. 
Underwood).—CoLomBia’; VENEZUELA; Ecuapor }. 
A very distinct species, easily recognized by its dark colour and mottled back from 
the other American members of the genus. Its range in South America extends from 
Ecuador northwards to Colombia and Venezuela, and thence passes into the Isthmus 
of Panama to the mountains of Costa Rica, where it appears to be not uncommon. It 
is probably everywhere a mountain species, in South America not leaving the slopes of 
the Northern Andes, 
