796 BULLETIN no, TTTTTTED STATER WATTOISrAL MTTSETJM. 



transversely spotted with dull white and brown, the latter sometimes 

 brown indistinctly barred or flecked with paler; chin dull white; 

 malar and subauricular regions immaculate white; a broad band 

 of brown across middle of throat, this paler and sometimes 

 slightly broken medially, darker and uniform laterally; lower throat 

 and upper chest and median line of breast and abdomen immaculate 

 white; sides of breast verona brown to mars brown or dark russet, 

 sometimes with a few small spots or flecks of white ; rest of under parts 

 white, broadly striped (except on median portion) with verona brown 

 to dark russet or nearly chestnut-brown, the under tail-coverts with 

 much smaller and narrower mesial streaks on longer feathers only; 

 legs cinnamon-buffy (deeper or paler), more or less mottled, especially 

 on outer side, with brown; under wing-coverts pale buff with a lon- 

 gitudinal series of blackish brown streaks lamning parallel with edge 

 of wing, the under primary coverts each with a large black terminal 

 guttata spot of blackish brown; under surface of remiges mostly pale 

 buff, except distally and on outer primaries, the buff portion banded, 

 except basally, with dark grayish brown, the dusky portion indis- 

 tinctly banded with paler grayish brown or brownish gray; bill dull 

 yellowish; iris yellow; toes pale yellowish brown (in dried skins). 



Young. — Similar to adults, but pileum and hindneck plain grayish 

 brown or brownish gray, the broken collar across lower hindneck with- 

 out black admixture. 



Adult male.— Length, (skins), 128.5-129.5 (129); wing, 86-88.5 

 (87.2); taU, 44.5-48 (46.2); culmen (from cere), 10-10.5 (10.2). « 



Adult female. — Length (skin), 144; wing, 96.5; tail, 55; culmen 

 (from cere), 10.5. '' 



Highlands of Guatemala (Chisec; Chocttim) and southward through 

 British Honduras (Southern Pine Eidge) , Honduras (Yaruca) and 

 Costa Kica (La Vijagua) to Panama (Veragua). 



Gllaucidium] pumilum (not Strix pumila Temminck) Ridgway, Proc. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., xvi, 1873, 92, part (Guatemala). 



Glaucidium pumilum (not Strix pumila Temminck) Ridgway, Proc. Bost. Soc. 

 N. H., xvi, 1873, 97, part (Guatemala); Ibis, 1876, 15, part (Guatemala; 

 crit.). — Zeledon, Anal. Mus. Nac. C. R., i, 1887, 125 (Costa Rica). 



Glaucidium griseiceps Sharpe, Ibis, 3rd ser., v, Jan., 1875, 41, pi. 2, fig. 2 (Guate- 

 mala; coll. Brit. Mus.), 56 (geog. range); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 196 

 (Guatemala). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., iii, 1897, 36 (Southern 

 Pine Ridge, Brit. Honduras; Chisec and Choctum, Guatemala; Veragua, 

 Panama). — Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xxxix, 1903, 144 (Yaruca, Hon- 

 duras); Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxii, 1909, 32 (La Vijagua, Costa Rica). — 

 Carriker, Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 478 (La Vijagua). 



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



a Two specimens; one from Yaruca, Honduras, the other from Vijagua, northern 

 Costa Rica. 



6 One specimen, from Yaruca, Honduras. 



