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



seven bands of brown, and agree fairly with the Guatemalan 

 examples in the collection of the above gentlemen. The Mu- 

 seum has one bird, collected by Arce, from this country and 

 belonging to the small grey form called G. gnoma by Ridg- 

 way ; the tail is blackish with six rows of white spots. 



Total 



length. Wing. Tail. Tarsna. 



a, ad. Veragua (Arce) 6-0 3-6 2-7 0-8 



b, ad. Calobre „ G-5 3-6 2-6 0-75 



c, ad. Santa Fe „ 5-5 375 2-55 0-8 



Venezuela. From this country Bonaparte named his G. 

 lansberi, a MS. name attached to a specimen in the Leiden 

 Museum, and adopted by Mr. Ridgway for the rufous phase 

 of G. jardinii. The specimen which was the type of Bona- 

 parte's name, is no doubt No. 1 of Schlegel's ' Catalogue ' 

 (p. 31) : " male, Caracas, presente par Mr. van Lansbergen/' 

 so that if the species were to stand, it would probably have 

 to be called Glaucidium lanshergeni^ . 



Schlegel, moreover, unhesitatingly unites it to G.ferrugineum 

 of Brazil ; and as the Venezuelan birds which I have examined 

 are undoubtedly the same as the red Brazilian birds, I fancy 

 that Dr. Wilson must have made a mistake in identifying the 

 Philadelphia specimen described by Mr. Ridgway. A male 

 bird from Caracas, in the Salvin-Godman collection, is deep 

 ferruginous, the tail rather duller and without bars, though 

 faint indications of the latter can be seen on holding the tail 

 away from the light. But at the same time a Venezuelan 

 specimen of G.jai'dinii in the rufous phase (=G. lansbergi 

 of Ridgway) is in the Museum, so that both species perhaps 

 occur. The Norwich Museum also contains a ferruginous 

 specimen from Caracas. 



Total 



length. Wing. Tail. Tai-sus. 

 a, S (id. Caracas {Miis. S.SfG.) 7-0 3-6 2-05 8-8 



Trinidad. I have seen five specimens from this island — four 

 in the Museum collection, and one in that of Messrs. Salvin 



* More recently, however, Schlegel (Miis. P. B. Columbce, p. 139) has 

 named a Dove ( Peristera hmshogi) after the !?ame gentleman, wliom he 

 now calls M. le Gouverneur van Lansbero-en. 



