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PREYING BIRDS — EAPTORES. 



Glaucidium Californicum, Sclater. 

 THE PYGMY OWL. 



Sfrix passeri'noiJes, Audubon, Orn. Bioy. V. 271, pi. 432, f. 4, 5 : oct. cd. I. pi. 30. (Suriiia.) 



MuTTALL, Man. I. 148. 

 Glaucidium iii/usmttim, Cassin, B of Cal. and Tex. I. 175. — Newberry, P. K. Rep. VI. ii. 



77. (" Not of Temminck, wliicU is same as preeeding." Cassin.) 

 Glaucidium cjnoma, Waglee, Isis, XXV. 1832, 275. — Cassin, P. R. Kep. Birds, IX. G2. — 



Heermann, X. vi. 34. — Cooper and Suckley, XII. iii. Zool. of W. T. 158. — 



CouES, Pr. A. N. Sc. 1860, 50. — Loud, Intellectual Observer, 18G5, 409. (Habit.) 

 Glaucidium CaliJ'uniicum, Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1857, 4. 



Sp. Ciiak. Spot before the eye, and extending over it, white. Upper parts entirely 

 brownish-ohvo, with small eireular s])ots of dnll white or pale rnfoiis, numerous on the 

 head, largest on the seajnilars. An in-egular, partly concealed band of white on the neck 

 behind, succeeded by a black one. Throat wliite, a band of brownish-olive across breast ; 

 other under parts white, striped with dark olive brown ; quills dark brown, with small 



G gnoma. 



white spots on tlu'ir outer welis, and large circular or oval ones on their inner; tail dark 

 brown, with about six or seven pairs of spots on each feather ; larger on the inner webs. 

 Under wing coverts white, with black spots. 



Female, with rather larger and more numerous spots above. Length, C..50 to 7.50; ex- 

 tent, 13.00 to 14.00; wing, 3.50 to 3.75; tail, 2.75 to 3.00. Iris yellow; bill greenish- 

 yellow; feet pale yellow. 



Hab. Oregon, California. No authentic case of its occurrence south of the United 

 States. 



