Y88 BULLETIH- 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Centr.-Am., Aves, iii, 1897, 35, part « (Laa Pefias, Jalisco; Sierra Madre, 



Tepic; Tenango del Valle and CMmalpa, Mexico; Chimalpa, Vera Cruz; Pue- 



bla; Vente de ZopUote and Omilteme, Guerrero; Comitan, Chiapas; Coban, 



Choctum, Duefias, and Volcan de Fuego, Guatemala). 

 [Glaucidium] gnoma Sharpb, Hand-list, i, 1899, 298, part (Mexico). 

 G[hucidvwm] gnoma Cabanis, Joum. fiir Om., 1869, 207 (crit.). — Ootjes, Key 



N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 514, part (Mexico). — Ridgway, Man. N. Am. 



Birds, 1887, 266, part (Mexico; Guatemala). 

 G[laucidium] gnoma gnoma Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.., xxiii, June 24, 1910, 



104 (measurements). — ^American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 3rd 



ed., 1910, 178, part (Guatemala). 

 Olaucidium gnoma gnoma Phillips, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 77 (Galindo, Tamaulipas). 

 Althene] gnomxt, Gray, Gen. Birds, i, 1845, 35. 

 [Athene] gnoma Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 42, no. 434. 

 Olaucidium passerinum, var. califomicum (not G. califomicurr), Sclater) Ridgway, 



Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvi, 1873, 317, part (Mexico); in Baird, Brewer, and 



Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, iii, 1874, 81, part (table-land of Mexico). 

 [Glauddium, passerinum] b. califomiatm Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 317, 



footnote, part (table-land of Mexico). 

 [Glauetdvwrn] elata Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 36 (Mexico; coll. Vienna 



Mus.; ex. Strix elata Natterer, manuscript). 

 Glaucidium ridgwayi Shabpb, Ibis, 3rd ser., v, Jan., 1875, 47, part (Cobin, 



Guatemala; supposed young). 

 (?) Glaucidium cohanense Sharpe, Ibis, 3rd ser., v, April, 1875, 260, in text (Cob&n, 



Vera Paz, Guatemala; coll. Paris Mus.); Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1875, 199, 



pi. 13, fig. 1.— Nelson, Auk, xi, 1894, 43. 

 (?) [OlavMium] cohanense Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 298. 



GLAUCIDIUM GNOMA HOSKINSH Brewster. 



HOSKIN'S' PYGMY OWL. 



Very similar in general coloration to G. g. gnoma, but streaks on under 

 parts browner (less blackish) and band across tkroatmuchpaler brown; 

 wing shorter and tail longer. 



Adult male.— Length. {&\sms.), 145.5-155 (150); wing, 86-89 (87.1); 

 tail, 61-65.5 (63); culmen, from cere, 9.5-10.5 (9.9).'" 



Adult female. — ^Length (skins), 141.5-145.5 (143.5); wing, 87-89 

 (88); tail, 61.5; cuhnen, from cere, 10.5-11 (10.7).'' 



Southern Lower California (Sierra de la Laguna; near Triunfo). 



Glaucidium gnoma hoskindi Brewster, Auk, v, April, 1888, 136 (Sierra de la 

 Laguna, s. Lower California; coll. W. Brewster). — Chapman, Auk, v, 1888, 

 395.— Bendirb, Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (i), 1892, 408. 



Glaucidium hoskinsii American Ornithologists' Union Committee, Suppl. to 

 Check List, 1889, 9; Abridged Check List, 1889, no. 379.1; Check List, 2d 

 ed., 1895, no. 379.1.— Bryant, Proc. Calif. Ac. Sci., ser. 2, ii, 1889, 285 (Sierra 

 de la Laguna and Comondu,*Lower California). — Allen, Auk, x, 1893, 142. — 

 Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1896, 593. — Brewster, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., xli, pt. i, 1902, 98 (Sierra de la Laguna). 



a Exclusive of references to Glaucidium femigineum and G. infuscatum var. gnoma 

 Lawrence, from Mazatlan, both of which pertain to G. bradlianum ridgwayi! 

 ^ Pour specimens. 

 " Two specimens. 



