790 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



6[lauadmin] gnoma Coues, Key N. Am. BMb, 2d ed., 1884, 514, part.— Ridgway, 



Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 266, part. 

 [Olaucidium] gnoma Shaepb, Hand-list, i, 1899, 298, part. 

 Glauddium gnoma gnoma Amehioan Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 3rd 



ed., 1910, 178, part.— Saunders, Condor, xiv, 1912, 26 (Silver Bow Co., s. w. 



Montana). 

 [Olaucidium] passerinum, var. califomicum (not Glauddium califomicum Sclater) 



Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 206, part. 

 Olaucidium passerinum, var. californicum B,idgwat, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xvi, 



1873, 317, part (monogr.); in Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 



Birds, iii, 1874, 81, part.— Hbnshaw, Rep. Orn. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 136 



(Apache, Gila R., etc., Arizona). 

 Ghucidium passerinum . . . var. califomicum? Ridgway, Bull. Essex Inst., v, 



1873, 185 (Colorado). 

 Olaucidium passerinum . . . var. californicum Coues, Check List, 1873, no. 329, 



part.— Henshaw, Zool. Exp. W. of 100th Merid., 1875, 407 (near Camp 



Apache, White Mts., and Gila B., Arizona; habits). 

 [Olavddium passerinum] b. califomicum Coues, Birds Northwest, 1874, 317, 



footnote, part. 

 Olaucidium, gnvma pinicoh. Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, Jvme 24, 1910, 



103 (Alma, New Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mns.).— American Ornitholo- 

 gists' Union Committee, Auk, xxix, 1912, 382. 

 0[UMcidium] gnoma pinicola Gbinnell (J.), Auk, xxx, 1913, 224 (measurements). 



GLAUCIDIUM GNOMA CALIFORNICUM (Sclater). 



CALIFORNIA PYGMY OWL. 



Similar to G. g. pinicola but decidedly browner, the general color of 

 tbe upper parts deep broccoli brown to light bister or grayish snuff 

 brown. 



Adult male.— Lelagth (skins), 154-175 (165); wing, 89.5-97 (93.6); 

 tail, 61-68.5 (65.9); cuhnen (from cere), 10-11 (10.9).« 



Adultfemale.— Length, (skins), 156-184 (169) ; wing, 92.5-102 (95.3); 

 tail, 63.5-72.5 (67.2); cuhnen (from cere), 10.5-12 (11.2). & 



California (except humid coast district from Monterey northward), 

 in mountains, from San Diego, Riverside, And San Bernardino coun- 

 ties northward along coast mountains to Los Angeles County and 

 through Sierra Nevada to Mount Shasta; thence northward along 

 Cascade Range and foothills and mountains of middle and eastern 

 Oregon and Washington to southern British Columbia (Mount Leh- 

 man; Vernon; Okanogan, Feb. 12; Chilhwack; Sumas, Feb. 16; 

 WiUow River, Caribou District) and northwestern Idaho (Nez Perces 

 Reservation; Fort Sherman). 



{'!)Aihene infuscata (not Strix infuscata Temminck) Heermann, Joum. Ac. Nat. 



Sci., PhOa., ii, 1853, 260 (Calaveras River, California). — Newberry, Rep. 



Pacific R. R. Surv., vi, pt. iv, 1857, 77 (Cascade Mts.). 

 Olaucidium califomicum Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lend., 1857, 4 (California; 



based on 0. infuscatum Cassin; type in coll. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila.). — ^Bendiee, 



Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xix, 1877, 132 (Camp Harney, Oregon; see Proc. Bost. 



Soc. N. H., xviii, 1875, 162). 



" Seven specimens. ^ Twelve specimens. 



