Buteo jamaicensis ( Gmelin, 1788 )

Suárez, William, 2020, The fossil avifauna of the tar seeps Las Breas de San Felipe, Matanzas, Cuba, Zootaxa 4780 (1), pp. 1-53 : 28

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4780.1.1
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scientific name	Buteo jamaicensis ( Gmelin, 1788 )
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Buteo jamaicensis ( Gmelin, 1788) View in CoL

Red-tailed Hawk; Gavilán de Monte

Falco jamaicensis Gmelin, 1788 , Syst. Nat. Vol. 1, no. 1 p. 266.

Referred material. San Felipe I: Distal end of left femur, MNHNCu 75.4741.

Description. This material coincides in its large size and is identical to the equivalent element in the skeleton of Buteo jamaicensis Gmelin, 1788 .

Comments. Buteo jamaicensis is the largest species of its genus from these tar seeps. This hawk is the commonest accipitrid in Cuba today, which lives in forests located at low and middle height elevations, in addition to muddy forests ( Garrido & Kirkconnell 2011:80).