AVES STRIGID/E. 707 



and hung about the houses all day long on the look-out for some stray 

 morsel of food. I have frequently seen one alight and advance within two 

 or three yards of the door-step, probably attracted by the smell of roasted 

 meat. The weather continued dry until late in the spring, so reducing the 

 sheep and cattle that incredible numbers perished during a month of cold 

 and rainy weather that followed the drought." (Huds. Natur. La Plata, 

 1892, pp. 66-67.) 



Genus GLAUCIDIUM Boie. 



Type. 



Glanctdhim, Boie, Isis, 1826, p. 976; Sharpe, Cat. Bds. 



Brit. Mus. ii. p. 188 (1875); Sharpe, Hand-list Bds. 



i. p. 297 (1899) G. passerimim. 



Nyctipetes, Swains. Classf B. ii. p. 218 G. per latum. 



Tccnioglaux, Kaup, Isis, 1848, p. 769 G. radiattim. 



Tcenioptynx, Kaup, 1. c. p. 768 G. brodiei. 



Microglaux, Kaup, 1. c. p. 769 G. perlatum. 



Microptynx, Kaup. Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 106 . . . . G. passerimmi. 

 Smithiglaux, Bp. Rev. et Mag. de Zool. 1854, p. 544 . G. capense. 



PhalcBnopsis, Bp. 1. c. p. 544 G. nanum. 



Geographical Range. — Common to both hemispheres ; absent from the 

 Austro-Malayan and the Australian region proper; reaching into the 

 western portion of North America to British Columbia, but absent from 

 the region east of the Rocky Mountains, except in southern Texas. 



Glaucidium nanum (King). 



Strix nana, King, Zool. Journ. III. p. 427 (1827: Port Famine). 

 Glaucidium nanum, Kaup, Contr. Orn. 1852, p. 103; id. Trans. Zool. Soc. 



IV. p. 202 (1853); Hartl. Naum. 1853, pp. 209, 220 (Valdivia); Burm. 



Reis. La Plata, II. p. 441 (1861); Scl. P. Z. S. 1867, p. 338 (Chili); 



id. and Salv. Ibis, 1868, p. 188 (Sandy Point, May); Huds. P. Z. S. 



1872, p. 549 (Rio Negro); Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 117 



(1873: Chili); Ridgw. Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist, xvi, p. 104 (1873); 



Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, pp. 41, 259; id. Cat. B. Brit. Mus. II. p. 190 



(1875 : Port Famine and Straits of Magellan : Rio Negro); id. P. Z. S. 



1881, p. II (Sandy Point, Jan.); Doering, Expl. al Rio Negro, Zool. 



p. 49 (1882: Choelechoel); White, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 41 (Cordoba, 



June and July); Salv. t. c. p. 426 (Chili); Vincig. Boll. Soc. Geogr. 



