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Regarding Dr. Sharpe's G. coianense, which is no doubt a strongly hepatic form of 

 some species of Glaucidium, we are of opinion that it is that phase of G. gnoma, the 

 head being but slightly marked ; it may be distinguished from the hepatic phase of 

 G. phalcenoides by the colour of the tail, which resembles that of the grey phase, and 

 is not evenly and regularly banded as in the hepatic G. ph.al(enoides. 



Mexican birds of this species differ slightly from Guatemalan examples in having 

 larger scapular and wing-spots, but the variation is slight and merely worthy of note. 



3. Glaucidium griseiceps. 



Glaucidium pumilum, Ridgw. Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvi. p. 57 (partim, nee Temm.) ^. 



Glaucidium griseiceps, Sharpe,Ibis, 1875, pp. 4>\, 259, t. 2. f. 2^; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus.ii. p. 196'. 



G. gnomce similis, se^. cauda breviore, fasciis tantum quatuor aufc quinque incompletis notata ; striis abdominis 

 plerumque rufescentioribus. Long, tota circa 6-0, alsB 3-4, caudae 2-15. (Descr. exempl. ex Choctam, 

 Guatemala. Mus. nostr.) 



ffab. Bkitish Hondueas, Southern Pine Ridge, western district {Blancaneaux) ; Guate- 

 mala {Bouvier ^) , Chisec, Choctum {0. S. & F. B. G.); Panama, Veraguas {Arce ^). 



This Owl was formerly considered to be identical with G. pmnilum of South 

 America, but Dr. Sharpe separated it on the ground of its greyer head 2. Its range 

 does not extend much beyond the department of Vera Paz, though Blancaneaux 

 obtained a specimen in Western British Honduras, faunistically an extension of 

 Eastern Guatemala. Southwards we trace it to the State of Panama, though it has 

 not yet been detected in Nicaragua or Costa Rica. 



4. Glaucidium jardinii. 



Phalanopsis jardinii, Bp. Compt. Rend. xli. p. 654 ^. 



Glaucidium jardinii, Cab. J. f . Orn. 1869, p. 208 '' ; Ridgw. Pr. Bost. Soc. N. H. xvi. p. 59 ' ; 



Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 415 *; Sharpe, Ibis, 1875, pp. 43 ", 259° ; Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. 



ii. p. 207 '; Zeledon, An. Mus. Nac. Costa Rica, 1887, p. 125 \ 



Supra murino-brunneum (capite dilutiore), omnino pallida eervino maculatum ; torque ceryicali albida, fulvo 

 marginata ; alis extus eervino maeulatis : subtus gula et pectore medio albis, facie, torque gulari, pectoris 

 lateribus et hypochondriis fulvo et nigro variegatis ; cauda nigricante, fasciis sex maculosis albis 

 transfasciata. Long, tota circa 6'0, alae 2'6, caudsB 2'lt5. (Descr. maris ex Eancho Redondo, Costa 

 Eica. Mus. nostr.) 



Hob. Costa Rica {Van Patten ^), Cartago {Zeledon^), Rancho Redondo, Irazu (C. F. 

 Underwood). — Colombia "^ ; Venezuela ; Ecuadok ^. 

 A very distinct species, easily recognized by its dark colour and mottled back from 

 the other American members of the genus. Its range in South America extends from 

 Ecuador northwards to Colombia and Venezuela, and thence passes into the Isthmus 

 of Panama to the mountains of Costa Rica, where it appears to be not uncommon. It 

 is probably everywhere a mountain species, in South America not leaving the slopes of 

 the Northern Andes. 



