BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 785 



Highlands of Costa Rica (mountains south of Cartago, at 10,000 

 feet; Cartago; Volcan de Irazii; Volcdn de Turrialba; Rancho 

 Redondo) and southward through Panama (Sona) and Colombia 

 (Bogota; Santa Elena, Antioquia) to Venezuela (Caracas; Angos- 

 tura), Ecuador (Quito; San Rafael; La Concepcion), and Peru 

 (Maraynioc; Pariayacu; Culumachay) ; « Guiana? 



Phalsenopsis jardinii Bonaparte, Compt. Rend., xli, 1855, 654 (Andes of Quito, 

 Ecuador). 



G[laucidium] jardinii Cabanis, Joum. fiir Orn., 1869, 208 (crit.). 



Glaiicidium jardinii? Ridgway, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvi, 1873, 92, 99 (monogr.; 

 Bogota, Colombia; "Guiana"). 



Glaucidium jardinii Ridgway, Ibis, 1876, 11, 12, 14, pi. 1 (crit.). — Sharpe, Ibis, 

 1875, 43, 57 (crit.; geog. range: Antioquia and Bogota, Colombia; Vene- 

 zuela); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 207. — Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. 

 Soc. Lond., 1879, 539 (Santa Elena, Antioquia, Colombia). — Berlepsch, 

 Ibis, 1884, 436 (Angostura, Venezuela; crit.). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 36 (Cartago, Rancho Redondo, and Volcan de 

 Irazii, Costa Rica; Colombia; Venezuela; Ecuador). — Goodfellow, Ibis, 

 1902, 221 (Quito, Ecuador; habits). — Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 

 1910, 478 (Volcan de Turrialba and Volcan de Irazu, Costa Rica; crit.; 

 habits). 



[Glaucidium] jardinii Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 298. 



Glaucidium jardinei Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vi, 1883, 415 (Costa Rica). — 

 Taczanowski and Berlepsch, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1885, 109 (San Rafael, 

 Ecuador; descr. male and female). — Salvadori and Festa, Boll. Mus. Zool., 

 etc., Torino, xv, 1900, 33 (La Concepcion, centr. Ecuador; crit.).— Berlepsch 

 and Stolzmann, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1902, ii, 41 (Maraynioc, Pariayacu, 

 and Culumachay, centr. Peru; crit.). 



Glaucidium jardini Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. C. R., i, 1887, 125 (Cartago, Costa 

 Rica). 



Noctua jardinii Schlegel, Mus. Pays-Bas, ii, no. 36 (Revue), 1873, 29. 



G[laucidium] lanshergii Ridgway, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvi, Dec, 1873, 92 

 ("Brazil"; descr.). 



Glaucidium langsbergii Ridgway, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvi, Dec, 1873, 98 

 (Caracas, Venezuela; coll. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila.; ex T. B.Wilson, manuscript; 

 =rufous phase). 



GLAUCIDIUM GNOMA GNOMA Wagler. 



PYGMY OWL. 



Grayish brown phase. 



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

 (deep hair brown to bister or, somethnes, nearly clove bro\ra),^ the 

 pileum and hindneck with numerous irregular but mostly roundish 

 small spots of pale dull buff or buffy white; across lower hindneck an 

 interrupted collar of white and immediately below this another of 



a I have not seen specimens from Peru or Ecuador. 



b The variation depending mostly on age of the plumage, those in new dress being 

 darker, those in worn plumage paler and browner. 

 3622°— Bull. 50, pt 6—14 50 



