ORDER RAPTORES. 151 



3790. Glaucidium gnoma calif or nicum (SCL.). 



California Pygmy Owl. 



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

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

 1889, 9. 



[B6o,/r/, C 329, part, R 409, part, C 484, /0r/.] 



GEOG. DIST. Pacific coast region, from California to British 

 Columbia. 



379.1. Glaucidium hoskinsii (BREWST.). 



Hoskins's Pygmy Owl. 



Glaucidium gnoma hoskinsii BREWST. Auk, 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 (BAUD.). 



Ferruginous Pygmy Owl. 



Strix phalcenoides DAUD. Traits' d'Orn. II. 1800, 206. 

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



[B C 33 o, R 4 io, C 4 8 5 .] 



GEOG. DIST. Southern border of the United States, from Texas 

 to Arizona, south to southern Brazil. 



GENUS MICROPALLAS COUES. 



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

 whitney i COOPER. 



381. Micropallas whitneyl (COOPER). 



Elf Owl. 



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

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



[B , C 33 i, R 4 n, C 4 86.] 



GEOG. DIST. Southern and Lower California, Arizona, New 

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



