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Mr. Belding and Mr. Frazar agree in considering the Burrowing Owl a rare 
bird in the Cape Region, where it is apparently confined to the low country 
near the coast. Mr. Frazar met with it on only two occasions; at La Paz, on 
April 4, when one which had been accidentally drowned in a water tank was 
brought to him by a boy, and at San José del Cabo, on October 26, when another 
was seen ‘¢in thick brush.” The bird seems to be but little more numerously 
represented in the central and northern portions of the Peninsula, for Mr. 
Bryant mentions only one “seen by me on Cerros Island in January, 1885;” a 
female shot on March 1, 1889, on Santa Margarita Island; one or two observed 
by Mr. Brandegee on Magdalena Island; and a few found by Mr. Anthony at 
San Quintin. The latter observer has also recorded the occurrence of “ a few 
in the more open valleys between the mines and the coast ” at San Fernando, 
as well as of others “seen in several of the valleys between Tia Juana and San 
Telmo.” 2 
The range of the Burrowing Owl in western America extends from British 
Columbia to Mexico, and the bird is believed to breed wherever found. 
Glaucidium hoskinsii (Brewst.). 
Hoskins’s Pyamy Owt. 
Glaucidium gnoma Ripeway, Nom. N. Amer. Birds (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 21), 
1881, 37, no. 409, part. Cougs, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, 83, no. 484, part. 
A. O. U.,Check List, 1886, 204, 205, no. 379, part. 
[ Glaucidium] passerinum, var. californicum Cours, Key N. Amer. Birds, 1872, 206, 
part. 
Glaucidium passerinum, var. californicum Cougs, Check List, 1878, 67, no. 329, part. 
Glaucidium gnoma hoskinsii BREwstER, Auk, V. 1888, 136 (orig. descr. ; type from 
Sierra de la Laguna). Benpire, Life Hist. N. Amer. Birds, pt. I. 1892, 408, 
409 (Sierra de la Laguna; breeding habits and eggs unknown). 
Glaucidium hoskinsii BREwstEeR MS., A. O. U. Comm., Suppl. to Check List, 1889, 
9; Check List, abridged ed., 1889, and 2d ed., 1895, no. 379.1. Bryant, 
Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 2d ser., II. 1889, 285 (Sierra de la Laguna; Comondu). 
Ripeway, Man. N. Amer. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 593, 594 (descr. ; mts. S. Lower 
Calif.). 
G [laucidium] gnoma Covers, Key N. Amer. Birds, 4th ed., 1894, 514, part. 
Glaucidium hoskinsi ALLEN, Auk, X. 1893, 142 (tropical type). Cours, Key N. 
Amer. Birds, 4th ed., 1894, 904 (deser.; Lower Calif.). 
[ Glaucidium] hoskinsi Suarre, Hand-list, I. 1899, 298. 
This little Owl was discovered by Mr. Frazar on the Sierra de la Laguna, 
where it frequents the largest pines and oaks on the top and sides of the 
mountain. It appears to be rather common, for several were heard calling 
almost every night in May and early June. “Their notes resemble the syl- 
lables cow, cow, cow, repeated a number of times.” Only three specimens were 
1 Auk, XII. 1895, 138. 2 Zoe, IV. 18938, 235. 
