168 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Glaucidium gnoma californicum Sclater. California Pygmy Owl. [379a.] 



Glaucidium californicum Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., XXV, 1857, No. 

 327 [May 26], 4. (Oregon and California = Calaveras County, Cali- 

 fornia.) 



Range. — California (except the humid coast belt at the north and the 

 southeastern deserts), from San Diego County north to the vicinity of Mount 

 Shasta and through central Oregon and Washington to central British 

 Columbia. 



Glaucidium gnoma hoskinsi Brewster. Hoskins's Pygmy Owl. [379.1.] 



Glaucidium gnoma Jioskinm, Brewster, Auk, V, No. 2, April, 1888, 136. 

 (Sierra de la Laguna, Lower California.) 



Range. — Cape district of Lower California, north to lat. 27°. 



Glaucidium brasilianum ridgwayi Sharpe. Ferruginous Pygmy Owl. [380.] 



Glaucidium ridgwayi Sharpe, Ibis, ser. 3, V, No. 1, Jan., 1875, 55. (Cen- 

 tral America = Mexico.) 



Range. — Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, and southern Arizona south 

 through Mexico and Central America to Panama. [Allied races occur in 

 South America.] 



Genus MICROPALLAS Coues. 



Micropallas Coues, Auk, VI, No. 1, Jan., 1889, 71. Type, by orig. desig., 

 Athene whitneyi Cooper. 



Micropallas whitneyi whitneyi (Cooper). Whitney's Elf Owl. [381.] 



Athene whitneyi J. G. Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., [ser. 1] I, sig. 8 

 [before Dec], 1861, 118. (Fort Mojave, lat. 35°, Colorado Valley [Ari- 

 zona].) 



Range. — Southeastern California, southern Arizona, southwestern New 

 Mexico, and Sonora. , 



Micropallas whitneyi idoneus Ridgway. Texas Elf Owl. [381a.] 



Micropallas whitneyi idoneus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 50, 

 Pt. vi, 1914, 810. (Five miles from Hidalgo, Texas.) 



Range. — Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas, south to Guanajuato, Puebla, 

 and the Valley of Mexico. 



Micropallas whitneyi sanfordi Ridgway. Sanford's Elf Owl. [3816.] 



Micropalliis whitneyi sanfordi Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus. No. 50, 

 Pt. vi, 1914, 809. (Miraflores, Lower California.) 



Range. — Southern Lower California. 



