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é*. Coloration decidedly tawny brown, or else dark. slaty brown above with 
the usual blackish pencillings indistinct. 
f?. Large like M. a. macfarlanei ; coloration very tawny; wing 7.40, 
tail 4.00. Hab. southern Alaska. 
, 873d. M. asio kennicottii (Exuior). Kennicott’s Screech Owl. 
f*. Smaller, the coloration darker and less tawny; dichromatic, the 
gray phase much darker and more uniform above than in other 
races. Hab. Shores and islands of Puget Sound, etc., north to 
Vancouver Island, New Westminster, and Comax,-south, along 
the coast, to Portland, Oregon. 
—. M. asio saturatus Brewster. Puget Sound Sereech Owl.’ 
(35.) Page 262, under Megascops flammeolus: 
374a. Megascops fammeolus idahoensis Merriam. Dwarf Screech Owl.” 
Similar to M. flammeolus, but smaller and paler, especially on the under 
parts, where the darker pencillings are very much narrower; facial ring tawny- 
ochraceous. Hab. Mountains of Idaho. 
In western Mexico (vicinity of Mazatlan), and possibly in Lower California, 
occurs a species nearly allied to M. brasilianus (Gm.) of South America, but ap- 
parently quite distinct. It belongs under section a’, having the toes completely 
naked, but is very different from M. flammeolus in color and dimensions. It is 
an undescribed species, which may be named Megascops hastatus and character- 
ized as follows: 
Toes completely naked ; upper parts light grayish brown, mixed or mottled 
with paler and spotted with blackish; lower parts delicately but irregularly 
barred with dark brown, on a whitish ground, and marked also with irregular 
mesial streaks of brownish black, most conspicuous on chest; legs whitish, 
barred with dark brown; wing 6.00-6.10, tail 3.40-3.50. Hab. Western Mexico 
(vicinity of Mazatlan); La Paz, Lower California? 
(86.) Page 266. In diagnosis of Glaucidium gnoma cancel “color of back,” etc., 
and add after “379. G. gnoma,”’ etc.: 
379a. Glaucidium gnoma californicum (Sct.). California Pygmy Owl 
Similar to G. gnoma but browner, the color of back, etc., approximating a 
warm bistre- or vandyke-brown hue, sometimes approaching chestnut-brown. 
Hab. Pacific coast, from San Francisco to British Columbia. 
379.1. Glaucidium hoskinsii Brewst. Hoskins’s Pygmy Owl. 
Similar to G. gnoma, but smaller; stripes on lower parts smaller and 
browner; cervical collar more distinct and more tawny, with less of black 
1 Megascope asio saturatua Brewst., Auk, April, 1891, 141. 
2 Megascops flammeolus idahoensis Merriam, North American Fauna, No, 5, July 30, 1891, 96, pl. 1. 
3 Glaucidium californicum Scu., P. Z. 8. 1857, 4, 146.—Glaucidium gnoma californicum Benprre, Auk, v. 
Oct. 1888, 366. 
4 Glaucidium hoskinstt Bruwst., Auk, v. April, 1888, 1836.—Glaucidium hoskinsii, A. O. U. Check 
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