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*Glauci(iium siju siju (D'Orb.). Cuban Pigmy Owl. 



Noctua siju D'Orbigny in La Sarag's Hist. Nat. Cuba. Aves, 1839, p. 41, pi. 3 

 (Cuba). 

 Glaucidium siju Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, p. 193; Cory, Auk, 



1886, p. 470; Id. Bds. West Indies, 1889, p. 193. 

 Glaucidium siju siju Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 804. 



Range: Island of Cuba, Greater Antilles. 

 6 : Cuba. 



Glaucidium siju vittatum Ridgway. Isle of Pines Pigmy Owl. 



Glaucidium siju vittatum Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., VI, 1914, p. 805 

 (Naieva Gerona, Isle of Pines, near Cuba); Id., Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, 

 VI, 1914, p. 805; Todd, Ann. Carnegie Mus., X, 1916, p. 232. 



Range: Isle of Pines (near Cuba.) 



Glaucidium tephronotum Sharpe. Sharpe's Pigmy Owl. 



Glaucidium tephronotum Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1879, p. 211, pi. XIII, 

 Fig. 2 (South America?). 



Range: Unknown; South America? 



Genus MICROPALLAS Coues. 



Micropallas Coues, Auk, 1889, p. 71 in text (New name to replace Microthene 

 Coues, preoccupied). (Type by original designation Athene whitenyi Coues). 



*Micropallas whitneyi whitneyi {Cooper). Elf Owl. 



Athene whitneyi Cooper, Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., II, 1861, p. 118 (Fort Mojave, 



Arizona). 

 Microthene whitneyi Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., II, 1875, p. 224. 

 Micropallas whitneyi whitneyi Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 



p. 807. 



Range: Southeastern California, Arizona, and southwestern New 

 Mexico to Sonora, Mexico. 

 2: Arizona, and "Mexico." 



Micropallas whitneyi sanfordi Ridgway. Sanford's Elf Owl. 



Mizropallas whitneyi sanfordi Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 

 p. 809 (Mirafiores, Lower California). 



Range: Southern Lower California. 



Micropallas whitneyi idonea Ridgway. Texan Elf Owl. 



Micropallas whitneyi idoneus Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 

 p. 810 (near Hidalgo, Texas). 



Range: Lower Rio Grande Valley in Texas and south to east 

 central Mexico. 



