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Black-faced Grassquit

Melanospiza bicolor

Classification

Class
Aves

The black-faced grassquit (Melanospiza bicolor) is a small bird in the family Thraupidae, the tanagers and allies. It is found in the West Indies except Cuba Colombia, Venezuela and islands off its coast, and on islands in the western Caribbean Sea. Taxonomy and systematics The first formal description of the black-faced grassquit was by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1766 in the twelfth edition of his Systema Naturae.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
United States of America · 37,920Netherlands · 16,077France · 8,706United Kingdom · 1,782Cuba · 4