187. California Pygmy Owl.

_Glaucidium gnoma californicum_ (Scl.).

Common throughout the southern portions of the Province, including
Vancouver Island.




Order COCCYGES. Cuckoos and Kingfishers.

Family CUCULIDAE. Cuckoos.

COCCYZUS Vieillot.

188. Western Yellow-billed Cuckoo. California Cuckoo.

_Coccyzus americanus occidentalis_ (Ridgw.).

A regular summer resident in the southwestern portions of the
Province. It breeds on Vancouver Island near Victoria. Mr. Brooks has
taken it at Chilliwhack.


Family ALCEDINIDAE. Kingfishers.

CERYLE Boie.