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SYSTEMA TIC SYNOPSIS. — RAPTORES— STRIGES. 



nicum Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857; G. gnoma caUfornimm A. 0. U. Committee's List. 1st Suppl., 

 1889, p. 9 ; CouES, Key, 4th ed. 1890, p. 904 ; A. 0. U. List, 2d ed. 1895, No. 379 a. 

 G. hos'kinsi. (To Frauds Hoskins, of Triunfo, L. Gala.) Hoskins' PvaMY Owl. Simi- 

 lar to the preceding, but smaller and grayer ; upper parts less distinctly spotted ; forehead and 

 facial disc with more white. Wing 3.30 ; tail 2.50 ; tarsus 0.75 ; chord of eulmen 0.50. Lower 

 California. G. gnoma hoskinsii Brewster, Auk, April, 1888, p. 136, accorded specific rank 

 by its describer with approval of the A. 0. U. Committee, in 1st Suppl. 1889, p. 9; Coues, 

 Key, 4th ed. 1890, p. 904 ; A. 0. U. List, 2d ed. 1895, No. 379.1. I have inspected the type 

 specimens, which appear to be those of a distinct species. 



G. phalccnoi'des. (Gr. (pdXaiva, phalaina, Ijat. phalcena, a moth, and el8os, eidos, form, figure, 

 appearance; from the resemblance of the plumage in coloration to that of certain moths. Fig. 

 440.) Ferruginous Pygmy Owl. Adult ^ 9, normal plumage : Tail entirely ferrugi- 

 nous, or light chestnut-red, crossed 

 with 7 to 9 bars of blackish-brown, 

 of same width as the rufous inter- 

 spaces, both sets of markings quite 

 regular. (These tail-marks distin- 

 guish the species in any plumage 

 from G. gnoma.) Entire top of 

 head, above superciliary ridges, and 

 sides of head behind auriculars, oli- 

 vaceous-brown, streaked with small 

 distinct lines of white or fulvous- 

 whitish ; these markings being on 

 forehead and most of crown like pin- 

 scratches in their sharpness, and 

 though a little less so behind ears, 

 everywhere retaining their narrow 

 linear character. (In G. gnoma, the 

 head-markings are dots and spots, 

 nut lines.) Back like head, oliva- 

 ceous-brown, but without markings, 

 except on scapulars, most of which 

 have a large round white spot on 

 outer web near end, and more or 

 fewer pairs of fulvous spots on both 

 webs. Color of back and head di- 

 vided by an obvious cervical collar, 



Fig. 440. - Ferruginous Owl. (From The Osprey.) consisting of a series of diffuse whit- 



ish, and another of fulvous, spots, separated by a nearly continuous line of black. Upper tail- 

 coverts usually more or less rufescent, approximating to color of tail. Remiges olivaceous- 

 fuscous, like back ; primaries imperfectly and indistinctly, secondaries completely and decidedly, 

 cross-barred with numerous rufescent bands, narrower than the dark intervals ; besides which 

 markings some of the primaries have an incompleted series of small whitish or very pale ful- 

 vous spots along outer edge, and all have large and deep indentations of white or whitish along 

 inner web, increasing in size from the ends toward the bases of all the feathers, and also on 

 individual feathers from outer primaries to inner secondaries, on which last tliey reach quite 

 across inner webs. Lining of wings white, with an oblique dark bar, and another curved dark 

 bar, latter across ends of under coverts. Under parts white, heavily streaked along sides with 

 color of back ; this color extending quite across breast, wliere, however, the feathers have di- 



