THE PYGMY OWL. 489 
the first week in April 
for the northern, one 
may hear at evening 
a soft and mellow 
love song, coo co-o, 
which the male re- 
peats by the hour. 
One who has heard 
this tender note well- 
ing up from the 
back pasture, while 
the locust trees by 
the gate are dis- 
tilling their sweetest 
fragrance, and Ad- 
ams is fading on 
the western horizon 
in the last afterglow 
of sunset, can easily 
forgive many things 
about the Burrowing 
Owl which are less fagen in Oregon. Phooey -Finleyvand! Bolliman. 
pleasant. BROTHERS. 
No. 198. 
PYGMY OW AE: 
A. O. U. No. 379. Glaucidium gnoma Wagler. 
Synonym.—GNoME Owt. 
Description.—Adults: Upperparts warm brown (snuff brown or darker), 
finely spotted with white or pale ochraceous-buff—the spots are smallest and cir- 
cular on head and upper back, larger, cordate or hastate on tertials and wing- 
coverts, and everywhere bordered obscurely with dusky; flight-feathers spotted 
with white; tail crossed by six interrupted bars (one terminal) of white; a cer- 
vical collar of mingled black and white; sides and a band across jugulum color 
of back or a little lighter, and similarly spotted; throat white; underparts white 
streaked coarsely with sepia, the streaks tending to coalesce in stripes. Bill and 
cere greenish yellow; feet dull yellow with soles of bright chrome, claws black; 
iris bright yellow. The female is of a rather lighter shade of brown above with 
