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Mr. R. B. Sharpc on the Genus Glaucidium. 



shade, and with a few ochraccoiis spots, larger and more in- 

 clining to bars on two of the feathers. In the absence of any 

 indication by Mr. Ridgway of the young bird of his G.fer- 

 nif/ineum, I mnst suppose these birds to be the immature of 

 that species ; and thus we should have the very yotuig birds 

 with uniform iipper sm-face, the head gradually becoming 

 mottled and spotted and then getting striped in the adult. 

 I am confirmed in this sequence by tlie presence of several 

 s])ots, more or less dilated, among the stripes on the crowns 

 of tiic adults. 



Total 



length. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. 



a, ad. Laguua (O. Salvin ) 6') 8-9 27 0-85 



b, ad. El Paraiso , Go 4-1 27 08 



c,ad. „ „ 70 3-9 27o 0-8 



