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379 a. Glaucidium gnoma califormcum (Scl.). 



California Pygmy Owl. 



Glaucidium californicum Scl. P. Z. S. 1857, 4. 

 Glaucidium gnoma californicum A. O. U. Check-List, ist Suppl. 

 1889, 9. 



[B6o,/ar/, C ^2<), part, R 409, /ar/, C 484, /ar/.] 



Geog. Dist. — Pacific coast region, from California to British 

 Columbia. 



379.1. Griaucidium hoskinsii (Brewst.). 

 Hosklns's Pygmy Owl. 



Glaucidium gnoma hoskinsii 'BR.^yfST:. Kvik, V. April, 1888, 136. 

 Glaucidium hoskinsii A. O. U. Check-List, ist Suppl. 1889, 9. 



[B— , C— , R- C— .] 



Geog. Dist. — Lower California. 



380. G-laucidium phal8enoides (Dauc). 



Ferruginous Pygmy O^vl. 



Strix phalcziioides Daud. Traits d'Orn. II. 1800, 206. 

 Glaucidium phalcenoides Cab. J. f. O. 1869, 208. 

 [B — C 330, R 410, C 485.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Southern border of the United States, from Texas 

 to Arizona, south to southern Brazil. 



Genus MICROFALLAS Coues. 



Micropallas CouES, Auk, VI. Jan. 1889, 71. Type, Athene 

 whitneyi Cooper. 



381. Micropallas whitneyi (Cooper). 



EU Owl. 



Athene whitneyi Cooper, Pr. Cal. Ac. Sci. 1861, 118. 

 Micropallas whitneyi Sennett, Auk, VI. July, 1889, 276. 



[B— , C331, R411, C486.] 

 Geog. Dist. — Southern and Lower California, Arizona, New 

 Mexico, and southern Texas, south to Puebla, Mexico. 



