Buteo lineatus ( 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 : 27

Buteo lineatus ( Gmelin, 1788)

Red-shouldered Hawk; Aguililla Pecho Rojo

Falco lineatus Gmelin, 1788 , Syst. Nat. Vol. 1, no. 1 p. 268.

Referred material. San Felipe II: Proximal end of right femur, MNHNCu 75.3231; distal halves of right MNHNCu 75.3232, and left, MNHNCu 75.3233 tibiotarsi; distal end of left tibiotarsus, MNHNCu 75.3234; distal halves of right MNHNCu 75.3235, and left, MNHNCu 75.3236 tarsometatarsi.

Description. Size, proportions and characters as in Buteo lineatus (see comparisons, description, measurements and illustrations of this material in Suárez & Olson 2003b).

Comments. This species was first recorded in the West Indies from cave deposits in the Bahamas ( Olson 2000), after a review ( Olson & Hilgartner 1982) of the fossil material of Calohierax quadratus Wetmore, 1937 . The only record of this taxon in Cuba is from Las Breas de San Felipe ( Suárez & Olson 2003b). Some elements of this species, especially if fragmentary, can be confounded with those of Accipiter gundlachi Lawrence, 1860 , or A. cooperii ( Bonaparte, 1828) , or vice versa, by their roughly similar size, although most of the elements are diagnostic.