790 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



G[laucidiu7n]gnoma Coves, KeyN. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 514, part. — Ridgway, 



Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 266, part. 

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

 Glaucidium gnoma gnoma American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 3rd 



ed., 1910, 178, part. — Saunders, Condor, xiv, 1912, 26 (Silver Bow Co., s. w. 



Montana). 

 [Glaucidium] passerinum, var. californicum, (not Glaucidium californicum Sclater) 



CouES, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 206, part. 

 Glaucidium passerinum, var. californicum Ridgway, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvi, 



1873, 317, part (monogr.); in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, iii, 1874, 81, part.— Henshaw, Rep. Om. "Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 136 



(Apache, Gila R., etc., Arizona). 

 Glaucidium passerinum . . . var. californicum? Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, 



1873, 185 (Colorado). 

 Glaucidium passerinum . . . var. californicum Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 329, 



part. — Henshaw, Zool. Exp. W. of 100th Merid., 1875, 407 (near Camp 



Apache, White Mts., and Gila R., Arizona; habits). 

 [Glaucidium passerinum] b. californicum Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 317, 



footnote, part. 

 Glaucidium gnoma pinicola Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, June 24, 1910, 



103 (Alma, New Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union Committee, Auk, xxix, 1912, 382. 

 G[laucidium] gnoma pinicola Grinnell (J.), Auk, xxx, 1913, 224 (measurements). 



GLAUCIDIUM GNOMA CALIFORNICUM (Sclater). 



CALIFORNIA PYGMY OWL. 



Similar to G. g. pinicola but decidedly browner, the general color of 

 tbe upper parts deep broccoli brown to light bister or graj/ish snuff 

 brown. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 154-175 (165); wing, 89.5-97 (93.6); 

 tail, 61-68.5 (65.9); cuhnen (from cere), 10-11 (10.9).« 



Adult female. —Length, (skins), 156-184 (169) ; wing, 92.5-102 (95.3); 

 tail, 63.5-72.5 (67.2); cuknen (from cere), 10.5-12 (11.2).^ 



CaHfornia (except humid coast district from Monterey northward), 

 in mountains, from San Diego, Riverside, and San Bernardino coun- 

 ties northward along coast mountains to Los Angeles County and 

 through Sierra Nevada to Mount Shasta; thence northward along 

 Cascade Range and foothills and mountains of middle and eastern 

 Oregon and Washington to southern British Columbia (Mount Leh- 

 man; Vernon; Okanogan, Feb. 12; Chilliwack; Sumas, Feb. 16; 

 Willow River, Caribou District) and northwestern Idaho (Nez Perces 

 Reservation; Fort Sherman) . 



{7)Athene infuscata (not Strix infuscata Teniminck) Heermann, Joum. Ac. Nat. 



Sci., Phila., ii, 1853, 260 (Calaveras River, California). — Newberry, Rep. 



Pacific R. R. Surv., vi, pt. iv, 1857, 77 (Cascade Mts.). 

 Glaucidium californicum Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 4 (California; 



based on G. infuscatum Cassin; tj^e in coll. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila.). — Bendire, 



Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xix, 1877, 132 (Camp Harney, Oregon; see Proc. Bost. 



Soc. N. H., xviii, 1875, 162). 



"■ Seven specimens. ^ Twelve specimens. 



