BIRDS OF NOETH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 779 



[Sumia] ulula (not Strix ulula Linnaeus) Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 36, 

 part.— Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 39, no. 376, part. 



Sumia ulula Cabot, Naumannia, 1852, heft iii, 66 (Lake Superior).— Cassin, 

 lUustr. Birds Calif., Tex., etc., 1854, 191 (excl. syn. part); in Baird, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 64 (excl. syn. part).— Brewer, N. Am. Oology, 

 i, 1857, 80; Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xix, 1878, 306 (Houlton, Maine, fall of 

 1877).— Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 62.— Wheaton, Ohio Agric. Rep., 

 1860, no. 29 (Ohio in winter).— Boardman, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. II., ix, 1862, 

 123 (Calais, Maine, breeding).— Verrill, Proc. Essex Inst., iii, 1862, 143 

 (Oxford Co., Maine, Nov.-March).— Lord, Proc. Roy. Artil. Inst. Woolwich, 

 iv, pt. iii, 1864, 111 (Brit. Columbia).— McIlwraith, Proc. Essex Inst., v, 

 1866, 281 (Hamilton, Ontario). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., viii, 1866, 281 

 (vicinity of New York City).— Turnbull, Birds E. Penn. and N. J., 1869, 

 41 (New Jersey).— Dall and Bannister, Trans. Chicago Ac. Sci., i, 1869, 

 274, part (Nulato and Sitka, Alaska; habits; descr. nest and eggs). — Cooper, 

 Orn. Calif., 1870, 448 (no California record).- Merriam, Sixth An. Rep. U. S. 

 Geol. Surv. Terr., 1873, 696 (Madison R., Montana, Aug. 11).— (?)Ridgway, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club., iii, 1878, 38 (St. Michaels, Alaska).— (?) American 

 Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 1886 (and 2d ed., 1895), no. 377. — 

 (?) Turner, Contr. Nat. Hist. Alaska, 1886, 163 (s. e. base of Shaman Mt. and 

 St. Michaels, Alaska; not pi. 6, which is true S. ulula!). — (?)Nelson, Rep. 

 Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, 1887, 154 (St. Michaels; crit.).— (?)Bendire, Life 

 Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 392, part. 



{?)Sumia ulula ulula American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 3rd ed., 

 1910, 176. 



{?) Sumia funerea ulula Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 192; 

 Nom, N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 407a.— Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 

 481.— Nelson, Cruise of "Corwin" in 1881 (1883), 77 (St. Michaels, Alaska). 



Strix nisoria (not of Meyer) Schalow, Journ. f iir Orn., 1891, 249 (Alaska). 



Genus GLAUCIDIUM Boie. 



Glaucidium Boie, Isis, xix, 1826, 970. (Type, by monotypy, Strix passerina 



Linnaeus.) 

 Nyctipetes Swainson, Classif. Birds, ii, 1837, 218. (Type, Strix perlata Vieillot.) 

 Tsenioptynx Kaup, Isis, 1848, 768. (Type, Noctua brodiei Burton.) 

 Tsenioglaux Kaup, Isis, 1848, 769. (Type, Strix radiata Tickell.) 

 MicToglaux Kaup, Isis, 1848, 769. (Type, as fixed by Gray, 1855, Strix perlata 



VieUlot.) 

 Microptynx Kaup, Isis, 1848, 764; Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1852, 106. {Type, Strix 



passerina Linnaeus.) 

 (?) Smithiglaux Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zool., 1854, vi, (2), 544. (Type, 



Athene capensis Smith.) 

 Phalxnopsis Bonaparte, Rev. et Mag. Zool., vi (2), 1854, 544. (Type, Strix 



nana King.) 



Very small Bubonidse (wing about 84-117 mm.) \di\\ the small 

 circular nostril opening near center of the inflated cere, head \vithout 

 ear-tufts, tai-si (sometimes toes also) densely feathered, and tail about 

 two-thirds to three-fourths as long as wing, with twelve rectrices. 



Bill stout; cere on top less than half as long as chord of cuhnen, 

 very broad. Nostril small, circular, opening near center of the 

 inflated (semibulbous) cere. External ear-openings small, symmet- 



