804 BULLETIN" 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



GLAUCIDIUM SIJU SIJU (D'Orbigny). 



CTTBAN PYGMY OWL. 



Grayish broion phase. 



Adults (sexes alike). — General color of upper parts grayish brown 

 (hair brown to sepia), interrupted by a conspicuous collar of light cin- 

 namon across lower hindneck, the feathers of this collar white basally 

 and tipped with brown ; on each side of nape, bordermg anterior edge 

 of the cinnamomeous collar, a more or less distinct transverse spot or 

 blotch of black; pileum and nape thickly dotted with pale dull buff 

 or buffy white, the small spots varying from nearly circular to guttate 

 in form; back, scapulars, and rump rather broadly and distantly 

 barred with pale cinnamon and white, the bars largest on scapulars, 

 smaller and mostly concealed on interscapulars and rump; wing- 

 coverts sparsely flecked with small spots of pale cinnamon, the outer 

 webs of distal middle and greater coverts with large terminal spots 

 of white ; secondaries narrowly banded (more or less distinctly) with 

 lighter brown, the bands passing into white on edges of the feathers ; 

 primaries less distinctly banded with lighter brown, the longer quills 

 with two or three white spots on edge near point of emargination ; tail 

 crossed by about six narrow bands, these white (or mostly white) on 

 middle rectrices, light cinnamon-brown passing into white on edges 

 of both webs on other rectrices; ''eyebrow" (superciliary region), 

 lores, orbital region, and auricular region dull white, the last rather 

 broadly barred with brown, the loral feathers with conspicuous black 

 bristly shafts; malar region, subauricular region, and chin immaculate 

 white ; a band of pale cinnamon, sometimes barred (more or less) with 

 brown, across middle of throat; foreneck, and median line of chest, 

 breast, and abdomen immaculate white ; sides of chest light to pale 

 cinnamon broadly barred with brown; sides of breast, sides, and 

 flanks white, usually more or less suflFused with pale cinnamon-buff, 

 spotted transversely or irregularly with light cinnamon and brown ; 

 thighs light to pale cinnamon, usually immaculate, or nearly so; 

 tarsi dull white, usually more or less flecked with brown ; under tail- 

 coverts white, the longer ones usually with a small subterminal 

 mesial streak of brown ; under wing-coverts white or bufi'y white, with 

 a more or less distinct longitudinal series of dusky brown streaks run- 

 ning parallel with edge of wing ; inner webs of remiges mostly white 

 proximally, plain grayish brown distally, the white increasing in 

 extent from the outermost primaries inwardly; bill pale dull grayish 

 yellow, sometimes darker basally; iris lemon yellow; toes dull yel- 

 lowish (pale yellowish brown in dried skins) . 



Young. — Similar to adults, but pileum and nape mostly plain 

 grayish brown (only the forehead marked with a few paler dots or 

 streaks), and texture of plumage softer. 



