BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 797 



GLAUCmiUM FISHERI Nelson and Palmer. 



FISHER'S PYGMY OWL. 



Most nearly resembling the rufescent phase of G. gnoma gnoma 

 but darker, with color of pileum and hindneck grayish brown or 

 brownish gray in strong contrast with the warm sepia or deep 

 prouts brown of back; forehead streaked with pale buff, the rest 

 of pileum, together with hindneck immaculate superficially; collar 

 across lower hindneck more spotted with black and white, and 

 without rusty or cinnamomeous suffusion posteriorly; sides of breast 

 darker brown, and stripes on under parts broader. 



Adult female. — Pileum deep hair brown, the hmdneck and sides of 

 neck more grajdsh; forehead with guttate streaks of pale buff, the 

 crown with concealed, minute, short shaft-streaks of the same, the 

 sides of neck with concealed transverse spots of buffy white; across 

 lower hindneck a collar of rather large buffy white to pale buff spots, 

 slightly intermixed mth black, especially laterally; back, scapulars, 

 wing-coverts, rump, and upper tail-coverts deep prouts brown or 

 warm-sepia brown, the first immaculate; outermost scapulars with 

 rather large roundish spots of pale cinnamon-buff; wing-coverts with 

 a few very small longitudinal spots of cinnamon, the outermost greater 

 coverts with a longitudinally ovate spot of cinnamon-buff on edge of 

 terminal portion of outer web; remiges deep grayish brown (dark 

 hair browTi), the secondaries crossed by about five transverse series 

 of semirounded spots of dull ochraceous-buff or clay color, these along 

 edge of outer webs ; primaries with very indistinct (hardly discernible) 

 faint bands of very slightly paler brown, these replaced, however, 

 on distal portion of third and fourth quills (from outside) by dis- 

 tinct spots of light cinnamon-buff — three on thii'd quill, one on the 

 fourth; upper tail-coverts with small, irregular, transverse spots 

 (largely concealed) of pale cinnamon-buff; tail dark clove brown or 

 fuscous, crossed by about seven (the last terminal) narrow, inter- 

 rupted bands of buffy white suffused with pale cinnamon or cumamon- 

 buff, these very much broader on inner web and not reaching nearly 

 to shaft on either web; ''eyebrow" and posterior part of lores (nar- 

 rowly) dull grayish white, the rest of lores black superficial!}' (the 

 concealed bases of feathers being dull grayish white) ; suborbital and 

 auricular regions dusky bro\vn with very narrow^ shaft-streaks of 

 whitish, the ternainal part of auricular region with broader streaks of 

 cinnamon-buff; malar and subamicular regions and chin immaculate 

 dull white; across throat a rather broad band of brown, becoming 

 more rufescent or russet laterally (beneath white subauricular area); 

 lower throat and center of chest immaculate wliite; sides of chest 

 brown with indistinct (mostly concealed) roundish, guttate, or rhom- 

 boid spots of cinnamon or pale cinnamon-brown, the outer portion of 



