178 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Glaucidium gn6ma WAGLER. 
RaNnGE.— Western North America from southern British Columbia 
south to Guatemala. 
a. Glaucidium gnoma gnoma WacLER. Pygmy Owl. [379.] 
Glaucidium gnoma WaGLER, Isis, XXV, 1832, 275. (Mexico.) 
RanGE.— Western North America from Cariboo District, interior of British 
Columbia, south in mountains to Guatemala and east to eastern Montana, 
Colorado, and New Mexico. 
b. Glaucidium gnoma califérnicum Scuater. California Pygmy Owl. [379a.] 
Glaucidium californicum ScuaTER, Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond., 1857, 4. (Ore- 
gon and California.) 
Ranae.— Pacific coast region from southwestern British Columbia south 
to Monterey, California. 
Glaucidium héskinsi BRewsTER. Hoskins’s Pygmy Owl. [879.1.] 
Glaucidium gnoma hoskinsii Brewster, Auk, V, April, 1888, 136. (Sierra 
de la Laguna, Lower California.) 
RanGeE.— Extreme southern Lower California. 
Glaucidium phalenoides (DaupIN). Ferruginous Pygmy Owl. [380.] 
Strix phalenoides Daun, Traité d’Orn., II, 1800, 206. (Trinidad.) 
RaNnGE.— Southern border of the United States from Arizona, New 
Mexico, and Texas south to southern Brazil. 
Genus MICROPALLAS Coves. 
Micropallas Cours, Auk, VI, Jan., 1889, 71. Type, by orig. desig., 
Athene whitneyi CoorEr. 
Micropdllas whitneyi (J. G. Coorrer). Elf Owl. [381.] 
Athene whitneyi Cooprer, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., I, 1861, 118. (Fort 
Mojave, Colorado Valley, Arizona.) 
RaANGE.— Southern and Lower California, east to southern Texas, 
south over the tableland of Mexico to Puebla. 
