200 BUBONID.E. 



Ilah. Coban, Vera Paz, Guatemala. 

 n. Ad. sk. Coban, Guatemala. M. A. Bouvier. 



8. Glaucidium ferox. 



Under the heading of this species three subspecies or races arc 

 included, as follows : — 



Subsp. a. Glaucidium ferox. 



a. Brown phase. 



Caburi?, Azara, Aptmt. i. p. 225. 



Strix ievox, VieiU. N. Diet. crHist. N. vii. p. 22. 



Strix passerinoides, Temm. PI. Col. 344 ; Max. Beitr. iii. p. 239. 



Noetua passerinoides, Less. Man. cPOrn. i. p. 112. 



Surnia passerinoides, Bp. Oss. Regn. Anim. Cuv. p. 57. 



Strix infuscata, Temm. Iml. Gen. PL Col. p. 7. 



Noetua ferox, I)' Orb. Voy. Am. Met: Ois. p. 127. 



Athene passerinoides. Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 35. 



Athene infuscata, Bp. Consp. i. p. 37 ; Strickl. Orn. St/n. p. 163 ; 



Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 42. 

 Glaucidium infuscatum, Kaup, Contr. Oni. 1852, p. 103 ; Cab. J. f. 



O. 1869, p. 207 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 289 ; Bidyw. Pr. Bast. Soc. 



N. H. xvi. p. 102. 

 Phalsenopsis infuscata, Bp. Eer. et May. de Zool. 1854, p. 544. 

 Phalsenopsis ferrugiuea, Bp. I. c. p. 544. 

 Glaucidium passerinoides, Burm. Th. Bras. ii. p. 143 ; id. Beise La 



Plata St. ii. p. 440. 

 Glaucidium ferrugiueum, Scl. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 289. 

 Noetua infuscata, Schl. Mus. P.-B. Stiiges, p. 31. 

 Athene ferruginea, Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 399. 

 Athene minutissima, Pelz. Orn. Bras. pp. 9, 399. 

 Glaucidiimi phaljenoides (pt.), Scl. ^ Salv. Nomencl. p. 117. 



6. Rufous phase. 



Strix ferruginea. Max. Pels. Bras. i. p. 105 ; Temm. PI. Col. 199. 

 Noetua ferruginea, Stepli. Gen. Zool. xiii. pt. 2, p. 69 ; Tsch. Faun. 



Per. pp. 19_, 117; Schl. Mus. P.-B. Striges, p. 30. 

 Surnia feri'iiginea, Bp. Oss. Begn. An., Cuv. p. 56. 

 Athene ferruginea, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 35 ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 38 ; 



Strickl. Orn. Syn. p. 162 ; Gray, Handr-l. B. i. p. 42. 

 Glaucidium ferrugineum, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 104; Burm, 



Th. Bras. ii. p. 141 ; Cab. J. f. O. 1860, p. 207. 



Bkown phase. Adult. Above ashy brown, with concealed 

 diamond-shaped spots of white on the back, extending to the upper 

 tail-coverts, and changing to bars on the scapulars, which have also 

 large ovate spots of white on the oiitermost feathers ; head rather 

 more earthy brown than the back, thickly covered with tiny ovate 

 dots of pale ochraceous, sometimes joined together by a central 

 shaft-line, and thereby producing a streak ; round the hind neck a 

 sort of collar, produced by mixed black and white feathers, some of 

 them washed with ochre, but not producing a second collar , the 

 usual black neck-patches tolerably well pronounced ; wing-coverts 



