BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 795 



in front of nostril; toes light yellowish brown (m dried skins) ; length 

 (skin), 143.5; wmg, 84.5; tail, 54; culmen (from cere), O.S.*^ 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male but pileum and hindneck 

 browner, the spots larger and pale cinnamon-buffy instead of white; 

 wings more distinctly spotted, and legs decidedly cinnamon-bro\vTi- 

 ish; length (skin), 147.5; wing, 85; tail, 55; culmen (from cere), 

 9.5.^ 



Southwestern Mexico, in Territory of Tepic (Arroyo de Juan 

 Sanchez) and State of Guerrero (El Naranjo). 



Glaucidium palmarum Nelson, Auk, xviii, Jan., 1901, 46 (Arroyo de Jiian San- 

 chez, Tepic; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



GLAUCIDIUM PUMILUM GRISEICEPS (Sharpe). 



GRAY-HEADED PYGMY OWL. 



Similar toG.p. pumilum'^ but coloration darker and less rufescent, 

 especially the stripes on under parts. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Pileum and hindneck hair brown to bister, 

 with numerous small dots of v/hite to light cinnamon-buff; across 

 lower hindneck a broken collar of large, irregular, white spots (partfy 

 concealed) intermixed wdth black, the latter mostly on lateral por- 

 tions; back, rump, scapulars, and wing-coverts plain bister to van- 

 dyke brown or nearly burnt umber, the outermost middle and greater 

 wing-coverts with a few spots of white to pale dull brownish buff, 

 the outer webs of exterior scapulars usually with concealed rounded 

 spots ot the same; remiges dark grayish brown (nearest clove brown 

 or fuscous) , the proximal secondaries lighter and browner (more like 

 color of back) ; outer webs of secondaries more or less distinctly 

 spotted along edge with pale cinnamon or cinnamon-buff, the spots 

 arranged in transverse series, sometimes forming distinct bands; 

 distal portion (except terminally) of third and fourth primaries (from 

 outside) with two or three spots of pale cinnamon or cinnamon-buff 

 on outer web, the fifth sometimes with one spot of the same, the 

 remaining portion usually plain dusky but sometimes showing very- 

 faint spots of paler fuscous; tail dark gi-ayish brown (dusky drab to 

 blackish brown) with larger or smaller rounded spots of white, these 

 most distinct on middle pair of rectrices, wanting on from two to four 

 outer pairs, the terminal ones confined to inner web; inner webs of all 

 the rectrices with large transverse ovoid spots of white, reaching half 

 way, or more, from edge to shaft; "eyebrow" and posterior portion of 

 lores dull white, the longer bristly feathers of the lores mostly black, 

 or at least with black shafts; suborbital and auricular regions barred or 



a One specimen, from El Naranjo, Guerrero. 



b One specimen (the type) from Arroyo de Juan Sanchez, Tepic. 



c See page 781. 



