BIRDS OP NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 789 



Glaucidium hoskinsi American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Check List 



3rd ed., 1910, 178. 

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



GLAUCIDIUM GNOMA PINICOLA Nelson. 



ROCKY MOUNTAIN PYGMY OWL. 



Similar to G. g. gnoma but decidedly larger and general color of 

 upper parts averaging much grayer (usually hair brown or grayish 

 hail" brown), and streaks on under parts more decidedly black. 



Adult male. —Length, (skins), 158-167 (162); wing, 94-96.5 (95.4); 

 tad, 62.5-68 (66.4); culmen (from cere), 10.5-11.5 (10.8).« 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 149-179 (170); wing, 98-105 

 (101.4); tail, 66-78.5 (71.7); culmen (from cere), 10.5-12 (11.4).'' 



Rocky Mountain district of United States, from Arizona (Huachuca 

 Mountains; Santa Cataluia Mountams; Fort Whipple; Flagstaff; 30 

 miles south of Apache; Mogollon Mountams; Fort Verde; Oak 

 Orchard; Tonto Basin; Gila River; etc.) and New Mexico (Fort 

 Bayard; upper Pecos River; Jamez Mountams; Alma; Luna; San 

 Pedro), through Colorado (Wet Mountains, Huerfano County; Beu- 

 lah; Boulder; near Denver; Bear Creek; near Durango; Pueblo; 

 Cheyenne Mountain; UtePass; Good Sprmg Creek, Routt County; 

 Chaffee County), and Wyoming to Montana (Gold Run, Belt Moun- 

 tains; Miles City; Gallatin County; Silver Bow County). 



Glaucidium gnoma (not of Wagler) Coues, Ibis, 1865, 162, in text (Ft. Whipple, 

 Arizona); Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Pliila., 1866, 50 (Ft. Whipple; crit.); Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 484, part. — Ridgway, Ibis, 1876, 12, part (Arizona; 

 Colorado; crit.); Field and Forest, ii, 1877, 210 (Boulder Co., Colorado); 

 Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 192, part; Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 409. 

 part.— Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, viii, 1883, 27 (Chiricahua Mts., 

 Arizona, 10,000 ft.; Ft. Bayard, New Mexico; crit.). — Williams (R. S.), 

 Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, viii, 1883, 59 (Gold Run, Belt Mts., Montana).— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 

 379, part.— Henshaw, Auk, iii, 1886, 79 (upper Pecos R., New Mexico; 

 habits).— Smith (H. G., jr.), Auk, iii, 1886, 284 (Bear Creek and near Denver, 

 Colorado).— Mearns, Auk, vii, 1890, 54 (Whipple Barracks, Tonto Basin, 

 Mogollon Mts., etc., Arizona). — Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 

 403, part.— Lowe, Auk, xi, 1894, 268 (Wet Mts., Colorado, 7,800-10,000 ft.).— 

 Cooke, Birds Colorado, 1897, 81 (resident in mountains up to 10,000 ft.; 

 Denver, Feb. 18, 1888; near Durango, winter 1888-89); Bull. 44, Col. Agric. 

 Exp. Sta., 1898, 161 (Pueblo, Colorado, Nov. 1; Cheyenne Mt., winter; Vte 

 Pass, breeding). — Swarth, Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 4, 1904, 9 (Huachuca 

 Mts., Arizona).— Cameron, Auk, xxiv, 1907, 269 (Miles City, Montana).— 

 Henderson, Univ. Colo. Studies Zool., vi, 1909, 230 (plains and lower mts., 

 Colorado).— Felger, Univ. Colo. Studies Zool., vii, 1910, 137 (Good Spring 

 Creek, Routt Co., n. w. Colorado).— W^arren (E. R.), Auk, xxA-ii, 1910, 146 

 (Chaffee Co., Colorado).— Saunders, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 37 (Gallatin Co., 

 Montana). 



" Five specimens. ^ Seven specimens. 



