O. Arredondo et Sl. Olson, A NEW SPECIES OF OWL OF THE GENUS BUBO FROM THE PLEISTOCENE OF CUBA (AVES, STRIGIFORMES), Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 107(3), 1994, pp. 436-444
Bubo osvaldoi, new species, is described from three bones from a Pleis
tocene cave deposit in the Sierra de Galeras, Pinar del Rio, western C
uba, with two additional paratypes referred from Baire in the province
of Santiago de Cuba, in the eastern part of the island. The species i
s the only representative of the genus Bubo and the tribe Bubonini in
the Antilles and in size was larger than any living owl.