Puerto Rican Bullfinch (Melopyrrha portoricensis) [XC682522]
by Justin Watts from Maricao, Maricao, Maricao, Puerto Rico (song)
Puerto Rican Bullfinch (Melopyrrha portoricensis) [XC173289]
by Ross Gallardy from Cambalache State Forest, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico (song)
Subspecies
Genus may belong in tanager family (Thraupidae). Appears to be part of a clade which also includes several other Caribbean genera (Euneornis, Loxipasser, Melopyrrha, Melanospiza), Tiaris grassquits, Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola), and "Darwin's finches" (Certhidea, Platyspiza, Pinaroloxias, Camarhynchus, Geospiza). Lesser Antilles subspecies grandis, sometimes considered a separate species, is extinct.
The following 2 subspecies are recognised:
portoricensis (Daudin, 1800) - Puerto Rico.
grandis! Lawrence, 1881 - St. Kitts (Lesser Antilles). Extinct.