BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMEEICA. 793 



Ghucidium gnoma (not of Wagler) Cassin, in Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R, Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 62, part (Ft. SteUacoom and Shoalwater Bay, Washington).— 

 Baied, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 60, part.— Coopee and Suckley, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., xii, book ii, pt. iii, 1860, 158 (Puget Sound and Ft. 

 Steilacoom, Washington).— Lord, Intellect. Observer, 1865, 409 (Brit. Colum- 

 bia; habits).— Anthony, Auk, iii, 1886, 165 (Washington Co., Oregon).— 

 TowNSEND (C. H.), Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iv, 1887, 204 (Humboldt Bay, 

 California; west base Mt. Shasta). 



GLAUCIDIUM GNOMA SWARTHI Grinnell. 



VAHOOTTVER PTGMT OWL. 



Similar to G. g. californicum but coloration decidedly darker and 

 more sooty, the general color of upper parts dark bister or deep warm- 

 sepia brown; throat-band and color of sides of breast decidedly less 

 rufescent brown; tail darker. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 149-166 (158); wing, 86.5-95.5 (90); 

 tail, 60-66 (62); culmen (from cere), 10.6-11.5 (11)." 



Adult female.— Length, (skins), 170-180 (176); wing, 92.5-96 

 (94.5); tail, 65-66 (65.3); culmen (from cere), 11-11.5 (11.3).* 



Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Errington; Parkville; head of 

 Central Lake; Victoria ?) .' 



Olaucidium gnoma (not of Wagler) Brown, Ibis, 1868, 419 (Vancouver Is.) 

 Glaucidium gnoma californicum (not Olaucidium californicum Sclater) Kermode, 



Provincial Mus. Victoria, 1909, 47, part (Vancouver Is.). — Swarth, Univ. 



Calif. Pub. Zool., x, 1912, 31 (Errington; Parkville; head of Central Lake; 



crit.). 

 Glaucidium gnoma. swarthi Grinnell (J.), Auk, xxx, AprU, 1913, 224 (Errington, 



Vancouver Island, Brit. Columbia; coll. Calif. Mus. Vert. Zool.). 



GLAUCIDIUM PALMARUM Nelson. 



FALU PTGMY OWL 



Somewhat similar to the rufescent phase of 0. gruyma grumia, but 

 stripes on under parts broader and light cinnamon-brown or sayal 

 brown (none of them approaching blackish) ; white or pale chmamon- 

 buffy spots on pileum smaller (those on forehead roundish instead 

 of longitudinally guttate), and feathering on lower part of tarsus 

 shorter and thinner; wings and tail shorter (especially the latter). 



Adult male. — Pileum and hindneck drab, thickly sprinkled with 

 small dots of dull white, those on forehead circular, not at all inclining 

 to longitudinal or guttate form; lower hindneck crossed by an indis- 

 tinct collar of pale cinnamon-buffy, intermixed with dull white in 

 middle portion, and laterally immediately preceded by a blackish 



a Five specimens. 



6 Three specimens. 



c Specimens from Victoria are scarcely distinguishable from mainland examples, 

 and the birds from the extreme southern end of the island may be more properly 

 referable to G. g. grinnelli. 



