v °g Q ^n Nelson and Palmer on Five New Birds from Mexico. A\ 



tertials these inner web bars are paler, becoming ochraceous-buffy along 

 the inner border of the vane. Scapulars, color of back with a large ovate 

 whitish spot extending obliquely back across outer web of feather near 

 tip and encroaching on the inner web as a point. Lesser and middle 

 coverts very dark cinnamon-rufous with broad heavy shaft streaks of 

 blackish. Lores grayish with hairs black-tipped. Extending back from 

 lores on sides of forehead over each eye is a series of feathers having large 

 median white spots narrowly bordered with darker. Cheeks cinnamon 

 rufous. Ear coverts grayish, edged with cinnamon rufous and tipped with 

 blackish. Feathers of chin whitish ; throat feathers with broad blackish 

 shaft-lines along entire length bordered on each side by dull pale cinna- 

 mon. Breast dull, dark cinnamon-rufous faintly mottled with darker. 

 Feathers of the adult plumage coming in here are heavily marked with a 

 broad shaft-streak occupying one-third of the feathers. Remainder of 

 lower surface very pale cinnamon with faint hoary gray and dark mottling. 

 Feathering of legs and feet dull pale buffv. Tail feathers hair-brown 

 broadly washed along outer web and about tips with cinnamon-rufous. 

 A mottling of the same color crosses the feathers forming irregular 

 broken bars. 



This species is smaller than ATegascops asio Jloridanus and 

 agrees very closely in size with M. cassuii from the vicinity of 

 Jalapa and Mirador in Vera Cruz, eastern Mexico, but is readily 

 distinguishable from it by the scantily feathered toes. The type 

 is a full grown young in the red phase. It was killed in the pines 

 at an altitude of 8500 feet. Two adults of this species, in the 

 gray phase, were seen at Patzcuaro, where they were kept as 

 pets in a store, but the owner refused to part with them. 



Glaucidium fisheri, 1 sp. nov. 



Type No. 131519 5, U. S. National Museum, Department of Agriculture 

 Collection. From Tochimilco, Puebla, Mexico. Collected by E. W. 

 Nelson August 7, 1893. (Original No. 1454.) 



Measurements: Length of wing, 87.6 mm. (3.45 in.) ; tail, 59.6 mm. 

 (2.35 in.) ; tarsus, 19.3 mm. (.76 in.) ; chord of oilmen, 8.9 mm. (35 in.). 



Color. — Back bistre brown with a warm tinge of vandyke. Top of 

 head and occiput hair-brown with a faint tinge of bistre. The forehead 

 and fore part of crown including most of the interorbital area is marked 

 with shaft streaks of white. Along the sides of the crown extending 



1 Named in honor of Dr. A. K. Fisher, in recognition of his valuable work on the 

 Hawks and Owls of the United States. 

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