ORDER RAPTORES. I5I 



379^. Glaucidium gnoma calif ornicum (Scl.). 



California Pygmy Owl. 



Glaucidium californicum Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, 4. 

 Glaucidium gnoma califoi-nicum A. O. U. Check-List, ist Suppl. 

 1889, 9. 



[B6o,/^r/, C 329, /^r/, R /^o^, part, C 484, /«r/.] 



Geog. Dist. — Pacific coast region, from California to British 

 Columbia. 



379.1. Glaucidium hoskinsii (Brewst.). 



Hosl£ins's Pygmy Owl. 



Glauciditim gnoma hoskinsii 'Qvc£^NS,T. A\jik^ V. April, 1888, 136. 

 Glaucidium hoskinsii A. O. U. Check-List, ist Suppl. 1889, 9. 



[B— C-, R-, C-.] 



Geog. Dist. — Lower California. 



380. Glaucidium phalaenoides (Daud.). 



Ferruginous Pygmy Ow^l. 



Strix phalcenoides Daud. Traite d'Orn. II. 1800, 206. 

 Glaucidium phalcenoides Cab. J. f. O. 1869, 208. 



[B— , C 330, R 410, C 485.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Southern border of the United States, from Texas 

 to Arizona, south to southern Brazil. 



Genus MICROFALLAS Coues. 



Micropallas Coues, Auk, VI. Jan. 1889, 71. Type, Athene 

 whitneyi Cooper. 



381. Micropallas whitneyi (Cooper). 



Elf Owl. 



Athene whitneyi Cooper, Pr. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1861, 118. 

 Micropallas whitneyi Sennett, Auk, VI. July, 1889, 276. 

 [B— , C331, R 411, C 486.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Southern and Lower California, Arizona, New 

 Mexico, and southern Texas, south to Puebla, Mexico. 



