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Genus GLAUCIDIUM Boie. 



Glaucidium Boie, Isis, XIX, 1826, p. 970 (Type by monotypy Strix passerina 

 Linn.); (Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, pp. 35-58); (Ridgway, Ibis, 1876, pp. 11-17). 



Glaucidium nanum {King). Patagonian Pigmy Owl. 



Strix nana King, Zool. Journ., Ill, 1828, p. 427 (Port Famine). 



Glaucidium nanum Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, p. 190; Crawshay, 

 Bds. of Tierra del Fuego, 1907, p. 35, and colored plate; Scott and Sharpe, 

 Rep. Princeton Univ. Exped. to Patagonia, Vol. II, pt. IV, 1915, p. 707. 



Range: Chile and Patagonia. 



*Glaucidium jardinii {Bonaparte). Jardine's Pigmy Owl. 



Phalaenopis jardinii Bonaparte, Comp. Rend., XLI, 1855, p. 654 (Andes of 



Quito, Ecuador). 

 Glaucidium jardinii Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 43; Id., Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, 

 p. 207; Ridgway, Ibis, 1876, p. 11, pi. i; Id. Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, 



VI, 1914, p. 782; Chapman, Bull. Am, Mus. N. H., XXXVI, 1917, p. 255 



(Colombia). 

 Range: Costa Rica, south to Peru and Venezuela. 

 3 : Colombia. 



Glaucidium gnoma gnoma {Wagler). Pigmy Owl, 



Glaucidium gnoma Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 275 (Mexico); Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, 

 p. 38, pi. I, part; Id., Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, p. 184, part, 



Glaucidium gnoma gnoma Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus,, No. 50, vi, 1914, 

 P- 785. 



Range: Northern and central Mexico, 



Glaucidiiun gnoma haskinsii Brewster. Haskin's Pigmy Owl, 



Glaucidium gnoma haskinsii Brewster, Auk, 1888, p. 136 (Sierra de la Laguna, 

 southern Lower California); Ridgway, Bull. U, S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 

 1914, p. 788. 



Range: Southern Lower California. 



*Glauciditmi gnoma pinicola Nelson. Rocky Mountain Pigmy Owl, 



Glaucidium gnoma pinicola Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXIII, 1910, p. 103 

 (Alma, New Mexico); Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 

 p. 789. 



Range: Rocky Mountains of United States, from Montana to 

 Arizona and New Mexico. 

 2 : Montana. 



*Glaucidium gnoma calif omicum {Sclater). California Pigmy Owl. 



Glaucidium californicum Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1857, p. 4 (CaUfornia). 

 Glaucidium gnoma californicum Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 



1914, p. 790. 

 Glaucidium gnoma vigilante Grinnell, Auk, 1913, p. 224. 



