792 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 158-186 (168); wing, 88.5-100.5 

 (94.9); tail, 62-72.5 (66.6); culmen (from cere), 10.5-11.5 (10.9). « 



Humid coast district of California (from Monterey County north- 

 ward), Oregon, Washington, and coast mainland of southern British 

 Columbia (Port Moody; New Westminster; Sumas; Okanogan, Febru- 

 ary; Chilliwack, Nov. 30; Mount Lehman; extreme southern end of 

 Vancouver Island?); east to west base of Mount Shasta and Lake 

 County, California, and (casually ?) to Spokane, eastern Washington. 



Strix passerinoides (not of Termninck) Townsend (J. K.), Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila., viii, 1839, 152.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., v, 1839, 271, pi. 432, figs. 

 4, 5. — NuTTALL, Man. Om. U. S. and Can., Land Birds, 2d ed., 1840, 148 

 (Ft. Vancouver, Washington; habits). 



Sumia passerinoides Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 23; Birds Am., oct. ed., i, 1840, 

 117, pi. 30. 



{?)Glaucidium infuscatum (not Strix infuscata Temniinck) Cassin, lllustr. Birds 

 Calif., Texas, etc., 1854, 189, part (Oregon). 



Glaucidium califomicum Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 126 (not of p. 4 ! ; 

 San Jose Valley, California; crit.). — Cooper, Orn. Calif., 1870, 444, part. — 

 Allen (C. A.), Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iii, 1878, 193 (Nicasio, Marin Co., 

 California; habits).— Cooper (W. A.), Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, 1879, 86 

 (Santa Cruz, California; breeding habits; descr. nest and eggs). 



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



[Glaucidium] passerinum var. califomicum Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 206, 

 part. 



Glaucidium passerinum . . . var. califomicum Coues, Check List, 1874, no. 329, 

 part. 



[Glaucidium passerinum] b. califomicum Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 317, foot- 

 note, part. 



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

 May, 1873, 94, part (descr. of adult male; monogr.); in Baird, Brewer, and 

 Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 81, part (descr. adult male). 



Glaucidium passerinum califomicum Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, iv, Jan., 

 1879, 42 (Nicasio, California; descr. autumnal plumage of young). 



Glaucidium gnoma califomicum Bendire, Auk, v, Oct., 1888, 366 (coast, from San 

 Francisco Bay to British Columbia). — American Ornithologists' Union, 

 Suppl. to Check List, 1889, 9; Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 379a; 3d ed., 

 1910, 178.— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iii, 1890, 136 (Mt. Lehman, 

 etc., B. w. Brit. Columbia). — Lawrence (R. H.), Auk, xii, 1892, 44 (East 

 Humptulips, Washiagton). — Bendire, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 

 407.— Rhoads, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1893, 42 (Brit. Columbia west of 

 Cascade Mts.). — Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birda, 2d ed., 1896, 593. — Brooks, 

 Auk, xvii, 1900, 106 (Brit. Columbia).— Johnson (A. W.), Condor, iv, 1902, 

 18 (Hasting's Ranch, Lake County, California). — Grinnell (J.), Pacific 

 Coast Avifauna, no. 3, 1902, 36 (California range). — Rathbun (S. F.), Auk, 

 xis, 1902, 134 (Seattle, Washington).— Stone, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 

 1904, 581 (Mt. Sanhedrin, Mendocino Co., California). — Kermode, Provinc. 

 Mus. A^ictoria, 1909, 47, part (s. part of mainland coast, Brit. Columbia). 



G[laucidiuvi] gnoma califomicum Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, 1910, 

 104 (measurements). — Grinnell (J.), Auk, xxx, 1913, 224 (measurements). 



^ Twelve spcimens. 



