Chestnut-backed Owlet

Here the details of the Chestnut-backed Owlet named bird below:

SCI Name:  Glaucidium castanotum
Protonym:  Athene castanonota Cat.BirdsMus.As.Soc. p.39
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae / Glaucidium
Taxonomy Code:  chbowl1
Type Locality:  Ceylon.
Author:  Blyth
Publish Year:  1851
IUCN Status:  Near Threatened

DEFINITIONS

GLAUCIDIUM
(Strigidae; Ϯ Northern Pygmy Owl G. passerinum) Gr. γλαυκιδιον glaukidion  little owl, owlet  < dim. γλαυξ glaux, γλαυκος glaukos  owl; "IV. Fam. Strigidae   ...  Glaucidium: St. nana Tem; passerina Lin. u. a. m." (Boie 1826); "Glaucidium Boie, Isis von Oken, 1826, Bd. 2, col. 970. Type, by subsequent designation, Strix passerina Linné (Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 6)." (Peters, 1940, IV, p. 127).
Var. Gaucidium.
Synon. Microglaux, Microptynx, Noctua, Nyctipetes, Phalaenopsis, Smithiglaux, Taenioglaux, Taenioptynx.

castanotum / castanotus
Gr. καστανον kastanon  chestnut; -νωτος -nōtos  -backed  < νωτον nōton  back.