BIKDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEEICA. 793 



Glaucidium gnoma (not of Wagler) Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 62, part (Ft. Steilacoom and Shoalwater Bay, Washington).— 

 Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 60, part.— Cooper and Suckley, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, book ii, pt. iii, 1860, 158 (Puget Sound and Ft. 

 Steilacoom, Washington).— Lord, Intellect. Observer, 1865, 409 (Brit. Colum- 

 bia; habits).— Anthony, Auk, iii, 1886, 165 (Washington Co., Oregon).— 

 TowNSEND (C. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1887, 204 (Humboldt Bay, 

 California; west base Mt. Shasta). 



GLAUCIDIUM GNOMA SWARTHI Grinnell. 



VANCOUVER PYGMY OWL. 



Similar to G. g. californicum but coloration decidedly darker and 

 more sooty, the general color of upper parts dark bister or deep warm- 

 sepia brown; throat-band and color of sides of breast decidedly less 

 rufescent brown; tail darker. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 149-166 (158); wing, 86.5-95.5 (90); 

 tail, 60-66 (62); culmen (from cere), 10.5-11.5 (11).« 



Adult female. — Length (skins), 170-180 (176); wing, 92.5-96 

 (94.5); tail, 65-66 (65.3); culmen (from cere), 11-11.5 (11.3).^ 



Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Errington; Parkville; head of 

 Central Lake ; Victoria ?) ." 



Glauddium gnoma (not of Wagler) Brown, Ibis, 1868, 419 (Vancouver Is.) 

 Glaucidium gnoma californicum (not Glaucidium californicum Sclater) Kermode, 



Provincial Mus. Victoria, 1909, 47, part (Vancouver Is.). — Swarth, Univ. 



Calif. Pub. Zool., x, 1912, 31 (Erfington; Parkville; head of Central Lake; 



crit.). 

 Glaucidium, gnoma sivarthi Grinnell (J.), Auk, xxx, April, 1913, 224 (Errington, 



Vancouver Island, Brit. Columbia; coll. Calif. Mus. Vert. Zool.). 



GLAUCIDIUM PALMARUM Nelson. 



PALM PYGMY OWL 



Somewhat similar to the rufescent phase of G. gnoma gnoma, but 

 ■stripes on under parts broader and light cinnamon-brown or sayal 

 brown (none of them approachmg blackish) ; white or pale cinnamon- 

 bufFy spots on pileum smaller (those on forehead roundish instead 

 of longitudinally guttate), and feathering on lower part of tarsus 

 shorter and thinner; wdngs and tail shorter (especially the latter). 



Adult male. — Pileum and hindneck drab, thickly sprinkled with 

 small dots of dull white, those on forehead circular, not at all inclining 

 to longitudinal or guttate form; lower hindneck crossed by an indis- 

 tinct collar of pale cinnamon-buffy, intermixed with dull wliite in 

 middle portion, and laterally immediately preceded by a blackish 



o Five specimens. 



^ Three specimens. 



c Specimens from Victoria are scarcely distinguishable from mainland examples, 

 and the birds from the extreme southern end of the island may be more properly 

 referable to G. g. grinnelli. 



