STRIGIDJi — THE OWLS. gX 



Tail, and stripes on sides, mucli darlcer than the back; tail-bands 

 " (<?)-8 (9), not continuous; toes only scantily haired. Wing, 

 3.50-4.00; tail, 2.50 - 2.80 ; culmen, .43 - .48 ; tarsus, .60 ; middle 

 toe, .55. Huh. Western Province of North America. Table- 

 lands of Jle.xico ...... var. call for nicum. 



Bi Markings on the crown longitudinal and linear. 



2. G. infuscatum. Tail dark brown, crossed by six to seven non-con- 

 tinuous bands of white, narrower than the dark ones Above varying 

 from grayish-brown to reddish-umber and sepia. Beneath white, the 

 stripes on the sides grayish-brown or dark Ijrown, like the back. 



Above dark sepia, or blackish-brown. Tail brownish-black or 

 deep black. Wing, 3.70-3.90; tail, 2.50-2.90; culmen, .45; 

 tarsus, .65 -.80; middle toe, .05 -.70. Hub. Eastern South 

 America ........ var. i nfu scatum } 



Above grayish, or reddish-umber. Tail clear dark bro^vn, or 

 grayish-umber. 



Wing, 3.60-3.90; tail, 2.35 - 2.75 ; culmen, .45 - ..50 ; tarsus, 

 .65 -.80; middle toe, .60 -.70. Hab. Middle America, from 

 the Rio Grande (probably in Texas) to Panama . var. gnoma." 



3. G. ferrugineum. Tail crossed by seven to nine continuous bands 

 of dark brown and bright rufous, of nearly equal width. Above vary- 

 ing from grayish-brown to bright ferruginous ; beneath varying from ■ 

 pure white to pale rufous, the stripes on the sides like the back. AVing, 

 3.70-4.15; tail, 2.20-2.90; culmen, .45 - .50 ; tarsus, .70-.80; mid- 

 dle toe, .70 -.75. Hah. Tropical America, from southern border of 

 United States to Southern Brazil. 



Glaiicidium passerinum, var. californicum (Sclater). 



THE CALIFORNIA PIGMY OWL. 



Glaucidium californicum, Sll.\ter, Proc. Zoul. Soc. Loml. 1S57, p. 4. Glaticiditim pcis- 

 scrinum, var. californicum (Ridgway) Coues, Key, 1S72, 206. Strix passcrinoidcs (not 

 of Temminck !), AuD. Orn. Biog. V, 271, 1831. Glaucidium infuscatum (not of 

 Temm.!), Cass. Birds of Cal. & Tex. p. 189, 1854. — Newb. P. R. R. Rept. VI, iv, 

 77, 1857. Glaucidium gnoma. (not o& Wagler !), C'.4.ss. Birds N. Am. 1858, 62. — 

 .Heeum. p. R. R. Rept. VII, 31, 1857. —Coop. & Suck. P. R. R. Rept. XII, ii, 158, 

 1860. — CouES, Prod. Orn. Ariz. p. 14, 1866. —Cab. Jour. 1862, 336. — Lord. Int. 

 OKs. 1865, 409 (habits). — Gkay, Hand List, I, 42, 1869. — Cab. Ueb. Berl. Mus. 

 1869, 207. 



Sp. Char. Adult {$, 12,0.54, Puget Sound, Washington Territory; Dr. C. B. 

 Kennerly). Above, including the auriculars, umber-brown, with a faint reddish oa,st ; this 



1 Glaucidium infuscatum, var. infuscatum. Strix infuscata, Temm. Ind. General, 1821. 

 Athene i., Bonap. Consp. 37, 1850 (excl. syu.). Glaucidium i., Kaitp, Cont. Om. 1852, 103. 

 i Strix eluta, Ii.lig. in Mus. Berl. Cab. Azar. No. 49. Strix passcrinoidcs, Temm. PI. Col. 344. 

 Sumiap., Bonap. Os. Cuv. Reg. An. I, 57. Noctua p.. Less. Man. & Tr. Orn. 



'^Glaucidium infuscatum, var. gnoma. Glaucidium gnotna, Wagl. Isis, 1832, 275. — K.\UP, 

 Monog. Strigidm, in Contr. to Orn. 1852, 103 (under G. infuscatum). — Strickl. Om. Syn. I, 

 163, 1855 (under G. infuscntum). Athene gnoma, Gr.AY, Gen. Birds, fol. sp. 35, 1844. Ilab. 

 Whole of Middle America, from Panama northward to the Rio Grande and Mazatlau. Probably 

 yet to be found in Texas or N(nv Mexico. 



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