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/. Color of back, etc., decidedly grayish brown (grayish hair brown to bister 

 or grayish Bnuff brown). 

 g. Smaller (wing averaging less than 88 in male, less than 94 in female). 

 h. Tail longer (averaging 63 in male, 61.5 in female); brown throat- 

 band less distinct (?). (Southern Lower California.) 



Glaucidium gnoma hoskinsii (p. 788). 

 M. Tail shorter (averaging 59.2 in male, 59.4 in female); brown throat- 

 band more distinct (?). (Northern and central Mexico.) 



Glaucidium gnoma gnoma (p. 785). 

 gg. Larger (wing averaging 90 or more in males, more than 95 in females). 

 h,. Color of upper parts grayer (back, etc., grayish hair brown); larger 

 (wing averaging 95.4 in male, 101.2 in female). (Rocky Moun- 

 tains of United States, from Arizona and New Mexico to Montana.) 

 Glaucidium gnoma pinicola (p. 789). 

 hh. Color of upper parts browner (back, etc., broccoli brown to light 

 bister or grayish snuff brown); smaller (wing averaging 93.6 in 

 male, 95.7 in female). (California, except northern coast dis- 

 trict, and northward to interior of British Columbia.) 



Glaucidium gnoma calif omicum (p. 790). 

 JJ. Color of back, etc., decidedly brown to deep brown or rufesccnt brown. 

 g. Color of upper parts lighter and more rufescent browna (back, etc., 

 snuff brown to verona brown). 

 h. Smaller (wing averaging 87.4 in male, 93.7 in female). (Mexico.) 



Glaucidium gnoma gnoma, rufescent phase (p. 786). 

 hh. Larger (wing averaging 93 in male, 95.6 in female). (Coast district, 

 from San Francisco Bay to southern British Columbia.) 



Glaucidium gnoma grinnelli (p. 791). 

 gg. Color of upper parts darker and more sooty brown (back, etc., dark 

 bister to warm sepia). (Wing averaging 90 in male, 93.7 in female.) 

 (Vancouver Island, British Columbia.) 



Glaucidium gnoma swarthi (p. 793). 



ee. Stripes on under parts light brown, relatively broader; smaller, with 



relatively shorter tail (tail 54 in male, 55 in female); feathering of tarsus 



shorter, ending abruptly above base of toes. (Southwestern Mexico, 



in State of Guerrero and Territory of Tepic.) 



Glaucidium palmarum (p. 793). 

 cc. Back neither spotted nor barred (uniform brown) ; sides of breast plain brown ; 

 tail with only four transverse series of white spots. {Glaucidium pumilum.) 

 d. General coloration more rufescent, especially stripes on under parts. (South- 

 ern Brazil to British Guiana.) 



Glaucidium pumilum pumilum (extralimital).'* 

 dd. General color less rufescent. (Panama to Guatemala.) 



Glaucidium pumilum griseiceps (p. 795). 



a Strixpumila Lichtenstein, Verz. Saugeth. Vog. K. Univ. Berlin, 1818, 28 (Brazil; 

 no descr., but cites " Cabure Azara Chouette LeVaill[ant]"); Temminck, Planch. 

 Col., ii, livr. 7, Feb., 1821, pi. 39 and text (Paraguay; Brazil).— "X" ie. S[trix\ pumila 

 Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl., 1823, 60 (Bahia and Sao Paulo, Brazil; description; coll. 

 Berlin Mus.).—Noctua pumila Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiii, pt. 2, 1826, 68.— 

 A[thene] pumila Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1845, 35.— Gl[aucddium] pumilum Kaup, Jar- 

 dine's Contr. Om., 1852, 103 (raonogr.).— Glaucidium pumilum Kaup, Trans. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., iv, 1859, 202 (monogr.; habits); Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 

 1856, 144; Ridgway, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvi, 1873, 97, part (monogr.); Ibis, 

 1876, 16, part (crit.); Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, 40, 56, pi. 2, fig. 1 (monogr.); Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 198; Salvin, Ibis, 1886, 72 (Camacusa, Brit. Guiana); Allen, Bull. 

 Am. Mus. N. H., ii, 1889, 266 (as to type of Strix viinutissiiTia Maximilian).— G[iai«ri- 



