GLATJCIDirM. 35. 



Capt. Bendire gives a resume of the little that is known of the habits of thia 

 species, chiefly taken from Euler's notes made in Brazil. A hen bird and egg were 

 secured by Mr. G. B. Sennett's collector at Canon de los Caballeros, near Victoria in 

 Tamaulipas. The nest was in a hollow tree growing at the base of the high mountains 

 of that district. Other eggs were subsequently obtained from a nest in an old 

 Woodpecker's hole in a mesquit tree near Brownsville, Texas. 



B. Pileus guttatus. 



2. Grlaucidium gnoma. 



Glaucidium gnoma, Wagl. Isis, 1833, p. 275 ' ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, pp. 38 \ 259, t. i. ff. 1, 2 ' ; 



Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. ii. p. 194 *. 

 Glaucidium ferrugineum, Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 297 °. 

 Glaucidium infuscatum, var. gnoma, Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H. ii. p. 298 ^ 

 Glaucidium ridgwayi, juv., Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, p. 47^. 



Glaucidium cobanense, Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, pp. 259, 260 * ; Gat. Birds Brit. Mus. ii. p. 199, 1. 13. f . 1°. 

 Glaucidium fisheri, Nelson & Palmer, Auk, xi. p. 41 ". 



Supra murinum, capite toto summo grisescentiore albo guttato ; torque nuchali eelato albo, rufo marginato ;. 

 soapularibus extus albo maeulatis, alis extus cervino-albo maculatis ; Cauda nigricante, septies albo 

 transfasciata, striis mediaHter interruptis : subtus album, lateribus fusco striatis. Long, tota circa 6'0,- 

 alse 3"6, oaudse 2"5. (Desor. maris ex Sierra Madre de Tepic, Mexico. Mus. nosfcr.) 



Forma hepatiea. Supra rufescens, fere unicolor, capite summo indistincte fulvo guttato ; cauda nigricaute, 

 fulvescenti-albido septies transfasciata, fasciis medialiter interruptis : subtus alba, lateribus rufo striatis. 

 (Descr. exempl. ex Coban, Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



Eab. Mexico {Dr. Petz ^), Mazatlan ( Grayson ^ % Las Peiias in Jalisco {Br. A. C. Buller, 

 in mus. EothscMld), Sierra Madre de Tepic, Sierra Nevada de Colima {W. B. 

 Bichardson), Colima {Xantus ^), Tenango del Valle {W. B. Bichardson), Chimalpa 

 {Ferrari-Perez), Puebla {Nelson & Palmer ^% Venta de Zopilote, Omilteme 

 {Mrs. H. E. Smith), Comitan in Chiapas {W. B. Bichardson); Guatemala, 

 Coban {Bouvier^^, 0. S. & F. B. G.), Choctum, Dueiias, Volcan de Fuego 

 {0. S. & F. B. G.). 



This species may be distinguished from G. griseiceps by its longer tail, measuring 

 2*5 inches instead of 2-0, and by the greater number of bands upon it. 



In North America it has an ally in G. californicum, which has often been confused 

 with it. G. californicum, which does not seem to occur in Mexico, is much more 

 uniformly grey above, the head and back are more distinctly spotted, the tail measures 

 3-0 inches, the sides of the head, the dark gular patch, and the flanks are more dis- 

 tinctly spotted. Moreover, so far as we know, G. californicum has no hepatic phase. 



From true G. phalcenoides the present species may be readily distinguished by the 

 head being spotted instead of striped. 



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