Puerto Rican Bullfinch (Melopyrrha portoricensis) [XC34281]
by Daniel Lane from cidra, Puerto Rico (song)
Puerto Rican Bullfinch (Melopyrrha portoricensis) [XC46633]
by Eric DeFonso from Casa Cubuy, El Yunque NP, 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.