BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMBKICA. 797 



GLAUCmroH FISHERI Nelson and Palmer. 

 FISHER'S PYGMY OWL. 



Most nearly resembling the rufescent phase of G. gnoma gnoma 

 but darker, with color of pUeum and hindneck grayish brown or 

 brownish gray in strong contrast with the warm sepia or deep 

 prouts brown of back; forehead streaked with pale buff, the rest 

 of pileum, together with hindneck immaculate superficially; coUar 

 across lower hindneck more spotted with black and white, and 

 without rusty or cinnamomeous suffusion posteriorly; sides of breast 

 darker brown, and stripes on imder parts broader. 



Adult female.- — ^Pileum deep hair brown, the hindneck and sides of 

 neck more grayish; forehead with guttate streaks of pale buff, the 

 crown with concealed, minute, short shaft-streaks of the same, the 

 sides of neck with concealed transverse spots of buffy white; across 

 lower hindneck a collar of rather large buffy white to pale buff spots, 

 slightly intermixed with black, especially laterally; back, scapulars, 

 wing-coverts, rump, and upper taU-coverts deep prouts brown or 

 warm-sepia brown, the first immaculate; outermost scapulars with 

 rather large roundish spots of pale cinnamon-buff; wing-coverts with 

 a few very small longitudinal spots of cinnamon, the outermost greater 

 coverts with a longitudinally ovate spot of cinnamon-buff on edge of 

 terminal portion of outer web; remiges deep grayish brown (dark 

 hair brown), the secondaries crossed by about five transverse series 

 of semiroimded spots of dull ochraceous-buff or clay color, these along 

 edge of outer webs ; primaries with very indistinct (hardly discernible) 

 faint bands of very shghtly paler brown, these replaced, however, 

 on distal portion of third and fourth quiUs (from outside) by dis- 

 tinct spots of hght cinnamon-buff — three on third quUl, one on the 

 fourth; upper tail-coverts with small, irregular, transverse spots 

 (largely concealed) of pale cinnamon-buff; tail dark clove brown or 

 fuscous, crossed by about seven (the last terminal) narrow, inter- 

 rupted bands of buffy white suffused with pale cinnamon or cinnamon- 

 buff, these very much broader on inner web and not reaching nearly 

 to shaft on either web; "eyebrow" and posterior part of lores (nar- 

 rowly) dull grayish white, the rest of lores black superficially (the 

 concealed bases of feathers being dull grayish white) ; suborbital and 

 auricular regions dusky brown with very narrow shaft-streaks of 

 whitish, the terminal part of auricular region with broader streaks of 

 cinnamon-buff; malar and subauricular regions and chin immaculate 

 dull white; across throat a rather broad band of brown, becoming 

 more rufescent or russet laterally (beneath white subauricular area) ; 

 lower throat and center of chest immaculate white; sides of chest 

 brown with indistinct (mostly concealed) roundish, guttate, or rhom- 

 boid spots of cinnamon or pale cionamon-brown, the outer portion of 



