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Mr. Belding and Mr. Frazar agree in considering the Burrowing Owl a rare 

 bird in the Cape Region, where it is apparently confined to the low country 

 near the coast. Mr. Frazar met with it on only two occasions; at La Paz, on 

 April 4, when one which had been accidentally drowned in a water tank was 

 brought to him by a boy, and at San Jose del Cabo, on October 26, when another 

 was seen "iu thick brush." The bird seems to be but little more numerously 

 represented in the central and northern portions of the Peninsula, for Mr. 

 Bryant mentions only one "seen by me on Cerros Island in January, 1885; " a 

 female shot on March 1, 1889, on Santa Margarita Island ; one or two observed 

 by Mr. Brandegee on Magdalena Island ; and a few found by Mr. Anthony at 

 San Quintin. The latter observer has also recorded the occurrence of " a few 

 in the more open valleys between the mines and the coast " at San Fernando,^ 

 as well as of others " seen iu several of the valleys between Tia Juana and San 

 Tebno." ^ 



The range of the Burrowing Owl in western America extends from British 

 Columbia to Mexico, and the bird is believed to breed wherever found. 



Glaucidium hoskinsii (Brewst.). 

 HosKiNs's Pygmy Owl. 



Glaucidium gnoma Ridgwat, Nom. X. Amer. Birds (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 21), 



1881, 37, no. 409, part. Coces, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, 83, no. 484, part. 



A. 0. U., Check List, 1886. 204, 205, no. 379, part. 

 \^Glaucidiuin\ passerinum, xslt. cahfornicum Coces, Key N. Araer. Bird.s, 1872, 206, 



part. 

 Glaucidium passerinum, var. cali/ornicum Coues, Check List, 1873, 67, no. 329, part. 

 Glaucidium gnoma hoskinsii Brewster, Auk, V. 1888, 136 (orig. descr. ; type from 



Sierra de la Laguna). Bexdire, Life Hist. N. Amer. Birds, pt. I. 1892, 408, 



409 (Sierra de la Laguna ; breeding habits and eggs unknown). 

 Glaucidium hoskinsii Brewster MS., A. O. U. Comm., Suppl. to Check List, 1889, 



9; Check List, abridged ed., 1889, and 2d ed., 1895, no. 379.1. Bryant, 



Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 285 (Sierra de la Laguna ; Comondu). 



KiDGWAY, Man. X. Amer. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 59-3, 594 (descr ; mts. S. Lower 



Calif.). 

 G.[laucidium] gnoma CouES, Key X. Amer. Birds, 4tli ed., 1894, 514, part. 

 Glaucidium hoskinsi Allen, Auk, X. 189.3, 142 (tropical type). Coces, Key N. 



Amer. Birds, 4th ed., 1894, 904 (descr.; Lower Calif.). 

 [Glaucidium] hoskinsi Sharpe, Hand-list, L 1899, 298. 



This little Owl was discovered by Mr. Frazar on the Sierra de la Laguna, 

 where it frequents the largest pines and oaks on the top and sides of the 

 mountain. It appears to be rather common, for several were heard calling 

 almost every night in May and early June. " Their notes resemble the syl- 

 lables cow, coiv, cou; repeated a number of times." Only three specimens were 



1 Auk, XII. 1895, 138. ^ Zoe, IV. 1893, 235. 



