Black-faced Grosbeak (Caryothraustes poliogaster) [XC830988]
by GABRIEL LEITE from Pe\u00f1as Blancas, San Ram\u00f3n, Alajuela Province, Costa Rica (song)
Black-faced Grosbeak (Caryothraustes poliogaster) [XC459976]
by Liliana Chavarria-Duriaux from R\u00edo Mulaba, Santa Fe, Provincia de Veraguas, Panama (song)
Subspecies
May form a superspecies, and has been treated as conspecific, with Yellow-green Grosbeak (Caryothraustes canadensis). Subspecies simulans of Yellow-green Grosbeak (Caryothraustes canadensis) sometimes included in present species.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
poliogaster (Du Bus De Gisignies, 1847) - Caribbean lowlands of Mexico (from central Veracruz, north-eastern Oaxaca and northern Chiapas east to southern Quintana Roo), northern Guatemala, Belize and northern Honduras.
scapularis (Ridgway, 1888) - Caribbean lowlands from eastern Honduras and Nicaragua south to Panama (Bocas del Toro, Veraguas and Coclé; formerly, or casually, farther east).