Slate-colored Grosbeak © birdsforbeer.com

Affiliations of genus uncertain. Recent molecular-genetic analyses indicate that it does not belong with present family, and may be better placed with tanagers (Thraupidae). Sometimes treated as conspecific with Black-throated Grosbeak (Saltator fuliginosus), and both sometimes placed in a separate genus, Pitylus.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

• saturatus (Todd, 1922)   -  Eastern Honduras, Nicaragua, Caribbean slope of Costa Rica, Panama (Caribbean slope, and eastern from Veraguas on Pacific slope), north-western Colombia (west of Andes) and western Ecuador (south to western Loja and El Oro).
• grossus (Linnaeus, 1766)   -  South-eastern Colombia east of Andes (southern from Vichada), southern Venezuela (Amazonas, Bolí­var), the Guianas, northern Brazil (south to northern Mato Grosso and Maranhío), eastern Ecuador (Sucumbí­os south to Zamora-Chinchipe), eastern Peru and northern Bolivia (Bení­ and north-western Santa Cruz).

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