Mr. R. B. Sharpe on the Genus Glaucidium. 43 



Total 



length. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 



6. S. America 8-0 3-8o 29 00 



G.juv. S. America 7o .3-9 29 0-85 



7. Straits of Magellan {King) 7-0 3-85 29 0-9 



a $ ad. Prov. Colchagua 7o 40 3-1 005 



We have now remaiuing five of Mr. Ridgway's species, as 

 follows: — 6. Glaucidium lansbergi; 7. G.jardinii; 8. G.fer- 

 rugineum ; 9. G. infuscatum, cum (a) var. infuscatum, et [b) 

 var. gnoma ; 10. G. siju. Of the bird which he calls G. lans- 

 bergi, I have seen a good many examples. They all come 

 from Columbia and Venezuela ; and I think Mr. E-idgway did 

 right to quote '^Brazil'' as a habitat with some hesitation, 



I have already noted that I consider G. langsbergi and 

 G. jardinii to be the brown and rufous phases of one and 

 the same species, and consequently unite them under the 

 name of G. jardinii. Mr. Ridgway considers that they are 

 specifically distinct, and identifies the brown-plumaged bird 

 as the original G. jardinii. Here, again, he cannot have 

 consulted the ' Comptes Rendus,^ or has mistranslated Bona- 

 parte j for the description points to the rufous bird and not to 

 the brown one : — 



" Rufo-chocolatina maculis rufis ; subtus rufescens in pec- 

 tore obscurior, fascia gulari et subalari fusca ; remigibus rectri- 

 cibusque nigro rufoque fasciatis, maculis fascialibus magnis.^^ 



The italics are here again my own; but the description 

 clearly indicates which bird was intended. 



Glaucidium jardinii. 



Characters of the species. — Back blackish brown, plentifully 

 varied with spots and bars of ochraceous. Upper tail-coverts 

 uniform with the back and spotted in the same manner. Tail 

 deep black, with six rows of white spots (counting the ter- 

 minal one), not continuous nor approaching near the shaft. 

 Head rather more ashy bro^vn, with large dots of white. Sides 

 of upper breast very dark brown mottled with large fulvous 

 spots and bars. 



Young birds are much more chocolate-brown than the 

 adults, and much less mottled on the back, the head being 



