Cuban Pygmy-Owl

Here the details of the Cuban Pygmy-Owl named bird below:

SCI Name:  Glaucidium siju
Protonym:  Noctua siju Hist.IslaCuba[Sagra] 3 p.41
Taxonomy:  Strigiformes / Strigidae / Glaucidium
Taxonomy Code:  cupowl1
Type Locality:  Cuba.
Author:  d'Orbigny
Publish Year:  1839
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

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.

siju
Local Cuban name Sijú for the Cuban Pygmy Owl (Glaucidum).

SUBSPECIES

Cuban Pygmy-Owl (siju)
SCI Name: Glaucidium siju siju
siju
Local Cuban name Sijú for the Cuban Pygmy Owl (Glaucidum).

Cuban Pygmy-Owl (vittatum)
SCI Name: Glaucidium siju vittatum
vittata / vittatum / vittatus
L. vittatus banded, ribboned < vitta ribbon, band.
● ex “Perroquet de St.-Domingue” of d’Aubenton 1765-1781, pl. 792, “Papegai à bandeau rouge” of de Buffon 1770-1785, and “Red-banded Parrot” of Latham 1783 (Amazona).
● ex “Grey-backed Shrike” of Latham 1821 (Lanius).
● ex “Petrel bleu” of de Buffon 1770-1783, “Blue Peteril” of Cook 1777, “Vittated Petrel” of J. R. Forster 1777, 1778, and “Broad-billed Petrel” of Latham 17856 (Pachyptila).
● ex “Wreathed Tern” of Latham 1785 (Sterna).