Orangequit (Euneornis campestris) [XC308437]
by Nick Komar from Ecclesdown Rd, Jamaica (call)
Orangequit (Euneornis campestris) [XC877738]
by Nick Komar from Hotel Mockingbird Hill, Drapers, Portland Parish, Jamaica (call)
Subspecies
No subspecies.
Sometimes placed in tanager family (Thraupidae), with which perhaps has closer ancestral affinities. Appears to be part of a clade which also includes several other Caribbean genera (Loxipasser, Melopyrrha, Loxigilla, Melanospiza), Tiaris grassquits, Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola), and "Darwin's finches" (Certhidea, Platyspiza, Pinaroloxias, Camarhynchus, Geospiza).