Blue Bunting (Cyanocompsa parellina) [XC284919]
by Orlando Jarqu\u00edn G. from Parque Arqueol\u00f3gico El Puente, La Jigua, Cop\u00e1n, Honduras (song)
Blue Bunting (Cyanocompsa parellina) [XC367135]
by Juan Carlos P\u00e9rez Maga\u00f1a from Santuario Bosque de Niebla, Mexico (call)
Subspecies
Genus sometimes subsumed in Passerina. May form a superspecies with Ultramarine Grosbeak (Cyanoloxia brissonii).
The following 4 subspecies are recognised:
indigotica (Ridgway, 1887) - Western Mexico from central Sinaloa southern on Pacific slope to southern Oaxaca and extreme south-western Chiapas.
beneplacita Bangs, 1915 - North-eastern Mexico (Nuevo León and extreme western Tamaulipas).
parellina (Bonaparte, 1850) - Eastern Mexico (from Veracruz, eastern Puebla and northern Oaxaca east to Tabasco, central Chiapas and Yucatán Peninsula) south to north-western Nicaragua.