STRIGIDiE — THE OWLS. 81 



Tail, and stripes on sides, much darker than the back ; tail-bands 

 7 ((J) -8 (9), "ot continuous; toes only scantily haired. Wing, 

 3.50-4.00; tail, 2.50 - 2.80 ; culmen, .43 - .48 ; tarsus, .60 ; middle 

 toe, .55. Hub. Western Province of North America. Table- 

 lands of Mexico var. calif ornicum. 



B. ^larkings on the crown longitudinal and linear. 



2. G. infuscatum. Tail dark brown, crossed by six to seven non-con- 

 tinuous iDands of white, narrower than the dark ones Above varying 

 from grayish-brown to reddish-umber and sepia. Beneath white, the 

 stripes on the sides grayish-brown or dark brown, like the back. 



Above dark sepia, or blackish-brown. Tail brownish-black or 

 deep black. Wing, 3.70-3.90; tail, 2.50-2.90; culmen, .45; 

 tarsus, .65 -.80; middle toe, .05 -.70. Hah. Eastern South 

 America ....•••• var. infuscatum } 



Above grayish, or reddish- umber. Tail clear dark brown, or 

 grayish-umber. 



Wing, 3.G0 - 3.90 ; tail, 2.35 - 2.75 ; culmen, .45 - .50 ; tarsus, 

 .65 -.80; middle toe, .60 -.70. Hab. Middle America, from 

 the Rio Grande (probably in Texas) to Panama . var. gnoma.- 



3. G. ferrugineum. Tail crossed by seven to nine continuous bands 

 of dark brown and Ijright rufous, of nearly equal width. Above vary- 

 ing from grayish-brown to bright ferruginous ; beneath varying from 

 pure white to pale rufous, the stripes on the sides like the back. Wing, 

 3.70-4.15; tail, 2.20-2.90; culmen, .45 - .50 ; tarsus, .70 -.80; mid- 

 dle toe, .70 - .75. Hab. Tropical America, from southern border of 

 United States to Southern Brazil. 



Glaucidium passerinum, var. californicum (Sclater). 



THE CALIFORNIA PIGMY OWL. 



Glaucidium californicicm, Scl.a.teu, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1857, p. 4. Glaucidium ims- 

 serinum, var. californicum (Ridgway) Coues, Key, 1872, 206. Strix passeriywides (not 

 of Temminck !), AuD. Orn. Biog. V, 271, 1831. Glaucidium infuscatum (not of 

 Temm.!), Cass. Birds of Cal. & Tex. p. 189, ,1854. — Newb. P. R. R. Rept. VI, iv, 

 77, 1857. Glaucidlaiih (jnomn, (not of Wagler !), Cass. Birds N. Am. 1858, 62. — 

 Heerm. p. R. R. Rept. VII, .31, 1857. —Coor. & Suck. P. R. R. Rept. XII, ii, 158, 

 1860. —Coues, Prod. Orn. Ariz. p. 14, 1866. —Cab. Jour. 1862, 336. — Loed. Int. 

 Obs. 1865, 409 (habits). — Gray, Hand List, T, 42, 1869. — Cab. Ueb. Berl. Mus. 

 1869, 207. 



Sp. Char. Adult (^, 12,054, Puget Sound, Washington Territory; Dr. C. B. 

 Kennerly). Above, including the auriculars, umber-brown, with a faint reddish cast; this 



1 Glaucidium infuscatum, var. infuscatum. Strix infuscata, Temm. Ind. General, 1821. 

 Athene i., Bonap. Consp. 37, 1850 (excl. syn.). Glaucidium i., Kaup, Cont. Orn. 1852, 103. 

 ? Strix eluta, Illig. in Mus. Berl. Cab. Azar. No. 49. Strix passerinoides, Temm. PI. Col. 344. 

 Surniap., Bonap. Os. Cuv. Reg. An. I, 57. Noct%iap., Less. Man. & Tr. Orn. 



^ Glaucidium infusccttum, var. gnomn. Glaucidium qnoma, Wagl. Isis, 1832, 275. — Kaup, 

 Monog. Strigidce, in Contr. to Orn. 1852, 103 (under G. infuscatum). —SrniCKh. Orn. Syn. I, 

 163, 1855 (under G. infuscatum). Athene gnoma, Gp.ay, Gen. P.irds, fol. sp. 35, 1844. Hah. 

 Whole of Middle America, from Panama northward to the Rio Grande and Mazatian. Probably 

 yet to be found iu Texas or New Mexico. 



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