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Vagrant to Aruba, Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Mexico.

Introduced to Jamaica.

Proposed subspecies melanogyna (Paraná, Brazil), with females blackish (almost as black as males), now considered a dark colour morph of nominate, as also is proposed subspecies milleri (Mato Grosso, Brazil). Origin of isolated Chilean population of nominate subspecies uncertain. Analysis of mitochondrial DNA desirable.

The following 7 subspecies are recognised:

• minimus Dalmas, 1900   -  South-eastern USA (Florida), West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago, the Guianas and extreme northern Brazil (R Branco).
• cabanisii Cassin, 1866   -  Eastern Costa Rica, Panama and western Colombia.
• venezuelensis Stone, 1891   -  Northern Venezuela and eastern Colombia.
• aequatorialis Chapman, 1915   -  South-western Colombia and western Ecuador.
• occidentalis von Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1892   -  Extreme south-western Ecuador (Loja) and western Peru.
• riparius Griscom & Greenway, 1937   -  Eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, and Amazon Valley in Brazil (east to Obí­dos).
• bonariensis (Gmelin, 1789)   -  Central and eastern Brazil (south of R Amazon) south to eastern Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Argentina (south to central Santa Cruz). Also Chile (Coquimbo Region south to Aysén).

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