Other Names (World)
Cinereous Warbling-Finch, Grey-and-white Warbling-finch (when treated as conspecific with P melanoleuca), Gray-and-white Warbling-finch, Cinereous Warbling Finch
Cinereous Warbling Finch (Microspingus cinereus) [XC55957]
by Myriam Velazquez from Campo MarIa, Presidente Hayes, Paraguay (song)
Cinereous Warbling Finch (Microspingus cinereus) [XC70547]
by Bernabe Lopez-Lanus from Palma Chueca, Rivadavia, Salta, Argentina (song)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
New molecular data indicate that genus forms a clade with the tanager (Thraupidae) genera Hemispingus and Thlypopsis, and that Compsospiza, which often subsumed within this genus, is sister to that clade. Until recently this species was treated as conspecific with Black-capped Warbling-Finch (Microspingus melanoleucus).
Similar Species
White-banded Tanager (Neothraupis fasciata) has an obvious black mask and immatures are strongly tinged brown.
References
See References.