46 Nelson, Ne-w Birds from Mexico. ff ""^ 



DESCRIPTIONS OF FIVE NEW BIRDS FROM MEXICO. 



BY E. AV. NELSON. 



The birds described below form a part of the Biological Sur- 

 vey collection. ^ 



I wish to express my obligations for courtesies extended to me 

 by Mr. Wm. Brewster of Cambridge, Mass., and by Mr. Robert 

 Ridgway and Dr. Chas. W. Richmond of the U. S. National 

 Museum, during the preparation of this paper. 



Glaucidium palmarum, new species. Tepic Pigmy Owl. 



Type No. 155^955, ? ad., U. S. National Museum, Biological Survey 

 Collection. From Arroyo de Juan Sanchez, Territory of Tepic, Mexico. 

 Collected April 5, 1897, by E. W. Nelson and E. A. Goldman. 



Distribution. — Known only from type locality. 



Description of type. — Top of head and nape brownish Isabella thickly 

 marked with transversely oval whitish spots — largest and clearest white 

 on nape; middle of back plain bistre brown ; upper surface of wings and 

 tail and upper tail-coverts nearly Front's brown of Ridgway; tertials and 

 wing-co\erts spotted with white or rusty white; outer edges of primaries 

 and secondaries spotted with same ; tail feathers marked with five trans- 

 verse series of large rounded white spots ; ear-coverts buffy whitish barred 

 with brown; chin, malar area and under tail-coverts white ; sides of breast 

 and feathers of tarsus rusty brownish ; rest of underparts white heavily 

 streaked with rusty brownish. 



Dimensions of type. — Wing, 87; tail, 56; culmen, 9 ; tarsus, 21. 



Notes. — This bird is smaller and more rusty brown with a 

 more heavily spotted crown than G. gnoma or its northern sub- 

 species. Through the courtesy of Mr. Wm. Brewster I have com- 

 pared the type of the present species with his series of G. gnoma 

 from Chihuahua and G. gnoma hoskinsii of Lower California. It 

 agrees closely in size with Glaucidiimi fisheri but differs widely in 

 color, also in tail and crown markings. The type of G. pahnarum 

 was shot in the midst of a palm forest on a low ridge near the sea 

 coast south of San Bias, Tepic. 



' All measurements are in millimeters. 



