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«'. Coloration dociilcillj' tuwny brown, or else dark slaty brown above with 

 the usual blackish pencillings indistinct. 

 /'. Largo like M. a. macfarlanei ; coloraiion very tawny; wing 7.40, 

 tail 4.00. n,ib. pouthcrn Alaska. 

 373(;. M. asio kennicottii (Elliot). Kennicott's Screech Owl. 

 /'. Smaller, the coloration darker and less tawny ; dichromatic, the 

 gray phase much darker and more uniform above than in other 

 races. Hab. Shores and islands of Puget Sound, etc., north to 

 Vancouver Island, New Westminster, and Coniax, south, along 

 the coast, to Portland, Oregon. 

 — . M. asio saturatus Buewsteu. Puget Sound Screech Owl.' 



(35.) Page 2G2, under Megascops flammeolus : 



374(7. Megascops flammeolus idahoensis Meuria:>i. Dwarf Screech Owl.' 

 Similar to M. flammeolus, but smaller and paler, especially on the under 

 pai'ts, where the darker pencillings are very much narrower; I'acial ring tawny- 

 ochraceous. Hab. Mountains of Idaho. 



In western Mexico (vicinity of Mazatlan), and possibly in Lower California, 

 occurs a species nearly allied to J/, brasilianus (G.M.) of South America, but ap- 

 parently quite distinct. It belongs under section «', having the toes completely 

 naked, but is very different from M. flammeolus in color and dimensions. It is 

 an undescribed species, which may bo named Megascops hasiatus and character- 

 ized as follows : 



Toes completely naked ; upper parts light grayish brown, mixed or mottled 

 with paler and spotted with blackish; lower parts delicately but irregularly 

 barred with dark brown, on a whitish ground, and marked also with irregular 

 mesial streaks of brownish black, most conspicuous on chest ; legs whitish, 

 barred with dark brown; wing 6.00-6.10, tail 3.40-3.50. II,tb. Western Mexico 

 (vicinitj' of Mazatlan); La Paz, Lower California? 



(3C.) Page 2CG. In diagnosis of Glaucidium gnoma cancel "color of back," etc., 

 and add after "379. G. gnoma," etc.: 



379ij. Glaucidium gnoma californicum (Scl.). California Pygmy Owl.' 

 Similar to G. ijnoma but browner, the color of back, etc., approximating a 

 warm bistre- or vandyke-brown hue, sometimes approaching chestnut-brown. 

 Hab. Pacific coast, from San Francisco to British Columbia. 



379.1. Glaucidium hoskinsii Brewst. Hoskins's Pygmy Owl.* 



Similar to G. gnoma, but smaller; stripes on lower parts snuiiier and 



browner; cervical collar more distinct and more tawny, with less of black 



' Mejaicopi atio laturatm Brkivst., Auk, April, IS91, 111. 



' .Vejaicopi Jlammcolun i</.i*«<-n«i« Mr.RRiAM, North American Fauna, No. 5, July .30, 1891, 96, pi. 1. 



> Glaucidium cali/onilcum ScL., P. Z. S. lSi7, 4, HC.— Glaucidium gnoma californicum Besdirb, Auk, v. 

 Oct. 18.18, 368. 



♦ Gtaucidium gnoma honiinrii Brewst.. Auk, v. April, ISSS, 136.— ff/auci'i/iuin koikintii, A. 0. l". Chock 

 List, abriJgcd od. 1SS9, No. 379.1. 



