﻿JOURNAL 
  

  

  OF 
  THE 
  

  

  WASHINGTON 
  ACADEMY 
  OF 
  SCIENCES 
  

  

  Vol. 
  12 
  August 
  19, 
  1922 
  No. 
  14 
  

  

  ZOOLOGY. 
  — 
  -New 
  forms 
  of 
  Neotropical 
  birds. 
  ^ 
  Alexander 
  Wet- 
  

   MORE, 
  Biological 
  Survey. 
  

  

  The 
  four 
  subspecies 
  described 
  in 
  the 
  present 
  paper 
  have 
  been 
  noted 
  

   in 
  the 
  collections 
  of 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  Museum 
  during 
  studies 
  of 
  

   birds 
  secured 
  by 
  the 
  writer 
  in 
  1920 
  and 
  1921 
  in 
  southern 
  South 
  America. 
  

   In 
  the 
  case 
  of 
  the 
  new 
  form 
  of 
  pygmy 
  owl 
  thanks 
  are 
  due 
  Dr. 
  F. 
  M. 
  

   Chapman 
  of 
  the 
  American 
  Museum 
  of 
  Natural 
  History 
  for 
  the 
  loan 
  

   of 
  an 
  excellent 
  series 
  of 
  these 
  birds 
  for 
  comparison. 
  The 
  types 
  of 
  

   the 
  forms 
  here 
  described 
  are 
  all 
  in 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  National 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Glaucidium 
  nanum 
  vafrum, 
  subsp. 
  nov. 
  

  

  Characters. 
  — 
  Similar 
  to 
  Glaucidium 
  nanum 
  nanum 
  (King)^ 
  but 
  with 
  dark 
  

   bars 
  on 
  tail 
  broader 
  (breadth 
  two 
  times 
  or 
  more 
  that 
  of 
  the 
  Hght 
  bands) 
  ; 
  

   sHghtly 
  larger. 
  

  

  Description. 
  — 
  Type, 
  U. 
  S. 
  Nat. 
  Mus., 
  Cat. 
  No. 
  284,856, 
  female 
  (in 
  rufes- 
  

   cent 
  phase), 
  from 
  Concon, 
  Intendencia 
  of 
  Valparaiso, 
  Chile, 
  collected 
  April 
  

   27, 
  1921, 
  by 
  Alex. 
  Wetmore 
  (orig. 
  No. 
  6603). 
  Crown, 
  nape 
  and 
  upper 
  back 
  

   between 
  verona 
  brown 
  and 
  warm 
  sepia; 
  lores, 
  superciliary 
  stripe 
  and 
  streak 
  

   behind 
  eye 
  white 
  streaked 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  with 
  black; 
  crown 
  and 
  nape 
  faintly 
  

   streaked 
  and 
  spotted 
  with 
  rather 
  dull 
  cinnamon-buff, 
  the 
  anterior 
  streaks 
  

   faintly 
  bordered 
  with 
  black 
  ; 
  nape 
  with 
  concealed 
  markings 
  of 
  black, 
  white 
  

   and 
  cinnamon-buff 
  that 
  appear 
  as 
  a 
  broken 
  half 
  collar 
  but 
  that 
  may 
  be 
  ar- 
  

   ranged 
  to 
  form 
  two 
  distinct 
  eyespots 
  on 
  the 
  back 
  of 
  the 
  neck; 
  streak 
  below 
  

   eye, 
  including 
  auricular 
  region, 
  blackish 
  slate 
  spotted 
  with 
  white 
  and 
  cinna- 
  

   mon-buff; 
  sides 
  of 
  neck 
  duller 
  than 
  snuff 
  brown, 
  barred 
  and 
  spotted 
  obscurely 
  

   with 
  cinnamon-buff 
  and, 
  more 
  faintly, 
  with 
  blackish 
  slate; 
  back 
  (save 
  as 
  

   indicated 
  above) 
  and 
  scapulars, 
  slightly 
  browner 
  than 
  hair 
  brown, 
  the 
  scapu- 
  

   lars 
  spotted 
  more 
  or 
  less 
  obscurely 
  with 
  cinnamon-buff, 
  and 
  white 
  bordered 
  

   by 
  cinnamon-buff; 
  rump 
  and 
  upper 
  tail-coverts 
  verona 
  brown, 
  rump 
  with 
  

   hidden 
  spots 
  of 
  cinnamon-buff; 
  primaries 
  and 
  secondaries 
  fuscous-black, 
  

   barred 
  on 
  under 
  surface 
  with 
  white, 
  that 
  becomes 
  marguerite 
  yellow 
  proxi- 
  

   mally 
  on 
  inner 
  feathers 
  ; 
  outer 
  webs 
  of 
  primaries 
  spotted 
  with 
  white, 
  margined 
  

   with 
  cinnamon-buff; 
  outer 
  webs 
  of 
  secondaries 
  spotted 
  with 
  cinnamon-buff; 
  

   wing 
  coverts 
  fuscous 
  washed 
  with 
  verona 
  brown; 
  external 
  ones 
  spotted 
  with 
  

   white, 
  all 
  obscurely 
  spotted 
  with 
  cinnamon-buff; 
  tail 
  fuscous-black, 
  crossed 
  

   by 
  narrow 
  bars 
  of 
  sayal 
  brown, 
  the 
  dark 
  bars 
  twice 
  the 
  width 
  of 
  the 
  light 
  

   ones; 
  malar 
  stripe 
  white; 
  chin 
  white 
  with 
  the 
  antrorse 
  hairlike 
  feather 
  tips 
  

  

  1 
  Received 
  July 
  7, 
  1922. 
  

  

  2 
  Strix 
  nana 
  King, 
  Zool. 
  Journ. 
  3: 
  427. 
  1827. 
  (Port 
  Famine, 
  Straits 
  of 
  Magellan.) 
  

  

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