178 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Glaucidium gn6ma WAGLER. 



RANGE. Western North America from southern British Columbia 

 south to Guatemala. 



a. Glaucidium gnoma gnoma WAGLER. Pygmy Owl. [379.] 



Glaucidium gnoma WAGLER, Isis, XXV, 1832, 275. (Mexico.) 



RANGE. Western North America from Cariboo District, interior of British 

 Columbia, south in mountains to Guatemala and east to eastern Montana, 

 Colorado, and New Mexico. 



b. Glaucidium gnoma calif ornicum SCLATER. California Pygmy Owl. [379a.] 



Glaucidium californicum SCLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, 4. (Ore- 

 gon and California.) 



RANGE. Pacific coast region from southwestern British Columbia south 

 to Monterey, California. 



Glaucidium hdskinsi BREWSTER. Hoskins's Pygmy Owl. [379.1.] 



Glaucidium gnoma hoskinsii BREWSTER, Auk, V, April, 1888, 136. (Sierra 

 de la Laguna, Lower California.) 



RANGE. Extreme southern Lower California. 



Glaucidium phaloenoides (DAUDIN). Ferruginous Pygmy Owl. [380.] 

 Strix phalcenoides DAUDIN, Traite" d'Ora., II, 1800, 206. (Trinidad.) 



RANGE. Southern border of the United States from Arizona, New 

 Mexico, and Texas south to southern Brazil. 



GENUS MICROPALLAS COUES. 



Micropallas COUES, Auk, VI, Jan., 1889, 71. Type, by orig. desig., 

 Athene whitneyi COOPER. 



Micropallas whitneyi (J. G. COOPER). Elf Owl. [381.] 



Athene whitneyi COOPER, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., I, 1861, 118. (Fort 

 Mojave, Colorado Valley, Arizona.) 



RANGE. Southern and Lower California, east to southern Texas, 

 south over the tableland of Mexico to Puebla. 



