BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



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that on pileum and hindneck) cinnamon or cinnamon-buff, and with 

 throat-band and sides of breast cinnamon-brown. 



FowTi^.— Similar to adults, but pileum plain brownish gray (only 

 the anterior portion of forehead more or loss spotted or flecked %nth 

 paler), in marked contrast "vvith browner color of back; brown on sides 

 of breast unspotted, and texture of plumage softer. 



Adult male. — Length (skins), 146-162 (152); wing, 82-92 (87.4); 

 tail, 57-63 (59.2) ; culmen (from cere), 9.5-10.5 (10.1).* 



Adult Jemale.—Length (skins), 153-162 (159); wing, 89.5-98 

 (93.7); tail, 58-63.5 (59.4); culmen (from cere), 10-10.5 (10.4).^ 



Highlands of northern and central Mexico, in States of Chihuahua 

 (Colonia Garcia), Nuevo Leon, TamauHpas (Galindo), Jalisco (Las 

 Penas; La Laja, 9,000 feet; Volcan de Meve; Guadalajara), Colima 

 (Sierra Nevada), Michoacan (Mt. Tancitaro; Patamban), Morolos 

 (Huitzilac), Mexico (City of Mexico; Tenango del Valle; Chimalpa), 

 and Guerrero (Vente de Zopilote; Omilteme), and Tenitory of Topic 

 (Sierra Madre) ; also, highlands of Chiapas (Comitan) and Guatemala 

 (Coban; Choctum; Duenas; Volcan de Fuego)?" 



Glaucidium gnoma Wagler, Isis, 1832, 275 (Mexico; coll. WiirttembergMus.). — 

 Kaup, Jardine'a Contr. Om., 1852, 103 (under G. infuscatum). — Sharpe, Ibis, 

 1875, 38, pi. 1, part (City of Mexico; w. Mexico; Choctum, Guatemala; 

 monogr.; crit.), 56, part (geog. range); Cat. Birds Brit. Mas., ii, 1875, 194, 

 part (w. Mexico; Central America (?). — RroowAY, Ibis, 1876, part (Mexico; 

 Guatemala; crit.). — American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 

 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 379, part (Mexico). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 



a Nine specimens. 

 & Five specimens. 



Locality. 



MALES. 



Three adult males from Michoacan S6 59.5 9.8 



One adult malefrom Jalisco 86.5 58.5 10.5 



OneadultmalefromChihuahua(ColoiiiaGarcia) 89 59.5 10.5 



OneadultmalefromNuevoLeon 84.5 58 9.5 



Two adult males from Tamaulipas( Galindo) 90 61.5 10 



Oneadultmalefrom"Mexico" 89 57 10.5 



FEMALES. 



One adult female from Morelos (Huitzilac) 89.5 59 10 



Two adult females from Jalisco 9^-5 61 10.5 



OneadultfemalefromNuevoLeon 90-5 58 10.5 



One adult female from Tamaulipas( Galindo) 89.5 58 10.5 



Culmen, 

 from 

 cere. 



c I have not seen specimens from either Chiapas or Guatemala, which probably 

 represent a different form, separated geographically from G. g. gnoma by the inter- 

 vening lowlands of eastern Oaxaca (Isthmus of Tehuantepec). According to Salvin 

 and Godman (Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, p. 36) there are color differences, the value 

 of which, however, is minimized by the authors cited. 



