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bb, Pileum streaked (not spotted) in adults, 

 c. Smaller (wing 86, tail 57, in female) ; under parts streaked with blackish brown 

 or brownish black; general color much darker (pileum deep grayish bro\vn, 

 back, etc., deep warm-sepia brown). (Eastern Mexico, in State of Puebla.) 



Glaucidium fisheri (p. 797). 



cc. Larger (wing averaging more than 97, tail averaging more than 62, in female); 



under parts streaked with light brown to cinnamon-rufous; general color 



much paler (pileum and back light grayish brown to cinnamon-rufous). 



(Glaucidium brasilianum.) 



d. Averaging deeper in color, especially the rufous phase. (Brazil and other 



parts of South America.) 



Glaucidium brasilianum brasilianum (extralimital).*^ 

 dd. Averaging paler, especially the rufoua phase. (Panama to southwestern 



border of United States.) Glaucidium brasilianum ridgwayi (p. 798). 



aa. Nostrils opening in anterior edge of cere; sides and flanks transversely spotted. 



( f) (Glaucidium siju.) 



b. Smaller (wing averaging 91.4 in male, 99.6 in female; tail averaging 56.4 in male, 

 63.4 in female); coloration browner, less conspicuously barred. (Cuba.) 



Glaucidium siju siju (p. 804). 



bb. Larger (wing 94.5 in male, averaging 105 in female; tail 61.5 in male, averaging 



70.5 in female) ; coloration grayer, more conspicuously barred. (Isle of Pines.) 



Glaucidium siju vittatum (p. 805). 



GLAUCroiUM JARDINH (Bonaparte). 



JARDINE'S PYGMY OWL. 



Brown phase. 



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

 bone brown to deep mummy brown or deep Vandyke brown), deepest 



Footnote — C on tinned . 

 dium] pumilum Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 208 (crit.). — ^^/[ra:] minutissima Maxi- 

 milian, Beitr. Naturg. Bras., iii, pt. i, 1830, 242 (int. of Province of Bahia, Brazil; 

 types now in coll. Am. Mus. N. H.). — [Athene] minutissima Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 

 1850, 38; Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1871, 399. — Athene minutissima Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., 1868, 

 9; iv, 1871, 463; Ibis, 1875, 330 (Spanish Guiana). — Noctua minutissima Schlegel, Mus. 

 Pays-Bas, ii, no. 12 (Striges), 1863, 22; no. 36 (Revue), 1873, 29. 



a [Strix] hrasiliana Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 1, 1788, 289 (Brazil; based on Asio 

 brasiliensis Brisson, Orn., 145, this based on Cabure ou Caboure Willughby, Orn., 107, 

 etc.; see Berlepsch, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xii, 1901, 8, d) .--<j[laucidium] brasiliense 

 Berlepsch, Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xii, no. Ixxxii, Oct. 30, 1901, 9, in text.— Strix/erox 

 Yieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., vii, 1817, 22 (Paraguay; based on Cabure Azara, 

 Apunt. Parag., i, 225). — Noctua ferox D'Orbigny, Voy. Amer. M4rid., Ois., 127. — 

 [Glaucidium ferox.] Subsp. a. Glaucidium ferox Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 

 200. — Strixpasserinoides Temminck, Planch. Col., ii, livr. 58, May, 1825, pi. 344, and text 

 (Brazil; coll. Paris Mus.). — Noctua passerinoides Lesson, Man. d'Orn., i, 1828, 112. — 

 A[thene] passerinoides Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1845, 35. — Glaucidium passerinoides Bur- 

 meister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 143.— Strix infuscata Temminck, Man. d'Orn., 

 ed. 2, pt. i, 1821, 97, in text (Brazil; based on Caboure Azara).— [^f^ene] infuscata 

 Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 37; Strickland, Orn. Syn., 1855, 163.—Gl[aucidium] 

 infuscatum Kaup, Jardine'a Contr. Orn., 1852, 103 .—[Phalsenopsis] infuscata Bona- 

 parte, Rev. et Mag. de Zool., 1854, 544. — Glaucidium infuscatum, var. infuscatum 

 Ridgway, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvi, 1873, 102.— Noctua infuscata Schlegel, Mus. 

 Pays-Bas., Striges, 1862, Sl.-Strixfcrruginea Maximilian, Reise Bras., i, 1820, 105, 

 footnote (Cabo Trio to Villa de Sao Salvador, Brazil; types now in coll. Am. Mus. N . H.). 



