224 Grinnell, New Pigmy Owls, [April 



Glaucidium gnoma vigilante, new subspecies. 



Sierra Pigmy Owl. 



Type.— 9 ad., no. 379, coll. J. Grinnell; foothills at 2250 ft. alt.. 4 

 miles north of Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California; February 18, 

 1894; collected by J. Grinnell. 



Diagnosis. — Nearest like Glaucidium <j. califomicum, but size slightly 

 larger and coloration much paler, broccoli brown dorsally and laterally, 

 instead of warm russet brown; light markings slightly more increased in 

 extent. Differs from G. g. pinicola in smaller size, and distinctly browner 

 coloration; white tleeks on back circular in shape rather than of transverse 

 trend. 



DISTRIBUTION.— Mountain ranges of southern California, and southern 

 Sierra Nevada, at least from Bear Valley, San Bernardino County, north 

 to Lindsay, Tulare County (probably throughout the Sierra Nevada north 

 to Mount Shasta). 



Glaucidium gnoma swarthi, new subspecies. 

 Vancouver Pigmy Owl. 



Type. - 9 ad., no. 15637, Calif. Mus. Vert. Zool.; Errington, Vancou- 

 ver Island, British Columbia: September 11, 1910] collected by II. S. 

 Swarth. 



Diagnosis. — -Nearest like Glaucidium </. califoruicum, but much darker 

 colored throughout, inclining to lustre dorsally, and white markings much 

 reduced in extent; feet and legs heavily suffused with sepia; streaking 

 below nearly black; size a-; in califomicum. Differs from G. a. piuicola in 

 smaller size, very much darker and browner coloration, and restriction of 

 light markings; the remnants of the latter are pervaded with deep clay 

 color. 



Distribution. Vancouver Island (and, probably, adjacent mainland 

 of British Columbia ami coast belt of Washington). 



Remarks. -The name selected for the subspecific appellation of this 

 new race serves as a merited means of signalizing the painstaking field and 

 systematic research devoted to northwest coast ornithology by Mr. Harry 

 S. Swarth during his incumbency as Curator of Birds in the California 

 Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. 



Measurements. 



(,". gnoma pinicola, 9, no. 203634, (J. S. Nat. Mus., Jainez Mt>., New 

 Mexico: Wing 105 mm., tail 7'.', tarsus 23. 



G. gnoma vigilante, 9 . type: Wing 96. 1, tail 73, tarsus 20.8. 



G. gnoma califomicum, 9, no. 4396, Calif. Mus. Vert. Zool., Marin 

 County, California: Wing 93.4, tail 65, tarsus 20 7. 



G. gnoma swarthi, 9 , type. Wing 92.3, tail (37.7, tarsus 20. 



