1873.] 97 [Ridgway. 



It differs in no respect, except in size, from N. American examples ; 

 it measures, wing, 3.40; tail, 2.60. 



Specimens examined. Nat. Mus., 7; Pliilad. Acad., 2; Cab. G.N. 

 Lawrence, 2; Coll. R. Ridgway, 1. Total, 12. 



2. Glaucidmm pumilum. 



" Strix pumila Illig." Temm., PI. Col., 344, 1821. 



Athene pumila Gray, Gen. B. 35, No. 14, 1840. 



Glaucidium pumilum Kaup, Monog. Strig. in Cont. Orn. 1852, 103. 



— Id. Trans. Zool. Soc. 1862, 202. — Gray, Hand List, i, 



1869,42, No. 429. — Burm., Tliier. Bras, n, 144, 146. — Ca- 



ban., Ueb. Berl. Mus. 1869, 208. 

 Strix minutissima Max., Reis. Bras. 1820. — Id. Beitrag, in, 242. 

 Surnia minutissima Bonap., Os. Cuv. Reg. An., 57. — Id. Isis, 1832, 



1035. 

 Athene minutissima Bonap., Consp. Av., 38. 

 ? Strix fer ox Vieill., Nouv. Diet, vn, 22, 1817. — Id. Enc. Meth. 



in, 1289, 1823. 

 Noctua ferox D'Orb., Synop. Av. Mag. Zool. 1838. 

 Athene ferox Bridg., P. Z. S. Pt. n, 109. — Id. Ann. N. H. xin, 



500. 

 Hah. Northwestern and eastern South America (New Granada, 

 Equador and Brazil); Guatemala (Coll. of G. N. Lawrence). 



Description. 



Sp. ch. Adult male ("South America"; Collection of Philadelphia 

 Academy). Above, deep chocolate-brown ; head and neck above with 

 minute circular specks of pale yellowish ; nape with an interrupted 

 collar of whitish. Secondary coverts with a few ochraceous spots on 

 margins of outer webs, and secondaries with about three obscure 

 bands of the same ; inner webs of tertials with conspicuous indenta- 

 tions of ochraceous. The fourth and fifth primaries with one or 

 two very small spots of pale rufous beyond their sinuation. Tail 

 brownish black, crossed with four series of rounded white spots (these 

 not touching the shafts of the feathers), the last terminal. Ground 

 color of lower parts pure white; gular collar, whole sides of breast 

 (continuously) and broad longitudinal stripes on sides and flanks, 

 bright rufous, or rufescent chocolate ; tibiae and upper portion of 

 tarsi inclining to the same. Wing, 3.90; tail, 2.15 ; tarsus, .50; mid- 

 dle toe, .60. 



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