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Sl[rix]. minutisslina Wied 



Beitr. Naturg. Bras. 3(1): 242, 1830. 

 =Glaucidium minutissimum minutissimum (Wied) . See Peters, Check- 

 list of birds of the world 4: 129, 1940. 

 76827. Adult male. "Brasilia" (="im Innern der Provinz Bahia," Wied, 

 op cit., p. 245). Collected by Maximilian, Prinz zu Wied. Received 

 in 1879 from the American Museum of Natural History, which acquired 

 it in 1870 as part of the Maximilian Collection. 

 This specimen bears Wied's original label, which reads "Strix minutissima 

 $ /Chouette Caboure Temm./Brasilia, M. R." 



In the American Musernn are two other cotypes, No. 6345, a male, and 

 No. 6345 bis, a female; they jointly possess a label with data quite like ours 

 (see Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 2:266, 1889). 

 Glaucidium jardinii coslaricanum L. Kelso 

 Auk 54 (3) : 304, July 2, 1937. 

 90392. Adult (sex not indicated). Costa Rica. Entered into the mu- 

 seum register on June 20, 1883. Received from C. H. Van Patten. 

 Glaucidium ridgwayi Bowdler Sharpe 

 Ibis (3)5:55, January 1875. 

 =Glaucidium brasilianum ridgwayi Bowdler Sharpe. See Brodkorb, 



Occas. Papers Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan 450: 1-4, 1941. 

 37876. Adult female. Merida, State of Yucatan, Mexico. March 6, 

 1865. Collected by Arthur C. V. Schott. Original number 246. 

 Comision cientifica de Yucatan. 

 39176. Adult male. Merida, State of Yucatan, Mexico. March 24, 

 1865. Collected by Arthur C. V. Schott. Original number 318. 

 Comision cientifica de Yucatan. 

 39178. Adult female. Merida, State of Yucatan, Mexico. March 24, 

 1865. Collected by Arthur C. V. Schott. Original number 319. 

 Comision cientifica de Yucatan. 

 For a discussion of the claims to typeship of these three specimens, see 

 Brodkorb (op. cit.). They seem to be the only ones of the original series 

 from the type locality (as restricted by Brodkorb) still in the museum col- 

 lection. 

 Glaucidium nanum vafrum Wetmore 



Journ. Washington Acad. Sci. 12 (14): 323, August 19, 1922. 

 =Glaucidium brasilianum nanum (King). See Peters, Checklist of birds 



oftheworld4: 131, 1940. 

 284856. Adult female. Concon, Province of Aconcagua, Chile. April 27, 

 1921. Collected by Alexander Wetmore. Original number 6603. 

 Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 Glaucidium cuculoides austerum Ripley 



Zoologica, New York 33 (4) : 200 December 31, 1948. 

 390166. Adult male. Tezu, Mishmi Hills, Sadiya Frontier Tract, Assam 

 Province, India. January 11, 1947. Collected by S. Dillon Ripley. 



