Milvago sp.

Suárez, William, 2022, Catalogue of Cuban fossil and subfossil birds, Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club 142 (1), pp. 247-248 : 55

33. Milvago sp.

Referred material.— Tarsometatarsus: proximal left, WS 977.

Distribution.—Cave deposit in west Cuba (see Appendix). Artemisa. Caimito: ACP ( Suárez & Arredondo 1997: 101).

Direct 14 C dating .—None.

Notes.—The rarest and least known of the Cuban extinct caracaras. Orihuela (2019: 60–61) erroneously considered the Milvago sp. , recorded by Suárez & Arredondo (1997: 101), as another Cuban species in the genus ( M. diazfrancoi , described a year after Orihuela’s paper), indicating ‘ Type locality: San Felipe tar pits, Martí, Matanzas province ...’ for it, but the present taxon has never been found in Cuban asphalt deposits (see Suárez 2020a: 36). At the same time, Milvago sp. was also incorrectly treated by Orihuela (2019: 60–61) as a synonym of the much larger extinct Caracara creightoni (see Suárez 2020a: 35, and ‘Notes’ under M. carbo ).