Black-faced grassquit
| Black-faced grassquit | |
|---|---|
| Male, Jamaica | |
| Female, Jamaica | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Melanospiza |
| Species: | M. bicolor |
| Binomial name | |
| Melanospiza bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766) | |
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The black-faced grassquit (Melanospiza bicolor) is a small bird. It is recognized as a tanager closely related to Darwin's finches. It breeds in the West Indies except Cuba, on Tobago but not Trinidad, and along the northern coasts of Colombia and Venezuela.