190 uiTnoxiD.i;. 



resembling the inner lining of the wing, which is ashy brown barred 

 with white on the inner web. Total length (v5 inches, wing 3-5, 

 tail 275, tarsus 0-7. 



Adult female. Above ashj' brown, the whole back varied with 

 more or less concealed whitish specks or bars, often tinged with 

 rufous on the back and scapulars, the outermost of the latter having 

 larger spots of dull white on the outer web ; head and nape ashy 

 brown, dotted with dull white, some of the spots washed with rufous 

 and inclining to small bars in some instances ; round the hind neck 

 the feathers marked with white, forming a kind of collar with the 

 usual black patches on each side, succeeded by a second collar of 

 rufous ochre, with which colour the feathers are marked in the form 

 of bands ; -wdng-coverts a little browner than the back, with small 

 transverse bars of pale rufous, the tips of the outermost median and 

 greater -wing-coverts reheved by an ovate spot of white ; qiulls dark 

 brown, with narrow whitish tips to the inner primaries and the 

 secondaries, the quills indistinctly barred with greyish brown, 

 changing to a white spot on the outer margin of the primaries and 

 producing a chequered appearance, not so distinct on the secondaries, 

 which are browner and have irregular transverse bai's of white or 

 ochraceous white ; tail deep brown, crossed with seven rows of white 

 spots, larger and more like notches on the concealed inner web ; 

 lores and feathers above the eye pure white, meeting over the base 

 of the forehead, the former ending in black bristles ; ear- coverts 

 ashy brown, varied with small bars of rufous and linear streaks of 

 white ; chin and cheeks white, extending in a conspicuous patch 

 under the ear-coverts ; lower throat pure white, separated from the 

 chin by a baiid of dark brown feathers somewhat varied with rufous ; 

 rest of under surface white, distinctly streaked with black ; the sides 

 of the body ashy brown, spotted with white, these spots more distinct 

 on the sides of the breast, which arc washed with rufous ; thighs 

 white, mottled with brown on the outer webs ; under wing-coverts 

 white, especially the bend of the wing, the inner ones and axillaries 

 yellowish, with a few blackish marks a little way from the edge of 

 the wing, the greater series yellowish at base, ashy brown at tip, 

 thus resembling the inner lining of the quills, which are plainly 

 barred with white on the inner web, less plainly and more spot-like 

 on the outer, the secondaries barred on both webs with pale rufous. 

 Total length 6 inches, wing 3'5, tail 2-7, tarsus 0-65. {Mus. H. S. 

 Lo Strange.) 



Hah. From Vancouver's Island and Oregon along the western 

 coast of America ; Mexico southwards to Guatemala. 



5, Glaucidium griseiceps. 



Glaucidium giiseiceps, Shnrpe, Ibis, 1875, pp. 41, 259, pi. ii. fig. 2. 

 Glaucidium pumilum Auct. ex Amer. centr. 



