Black-headed Saltator (Saltator atriceps) [XC256119]
by Frank Lambert from near La Concordia, Chiapas, Mexico (call)
Black-headed Saltator (Saltator atriceps) [XC811839]
by Peter Boesman from Los Tarrales, Suchitep\u00e9quez, Guatemala (call)
Subspecies
Affiliations of genus uncertain. Recent molecular-genetic analyses indicate that it does not belong with present family, and may be better placed with tanagers (Thraupidae).
The following 6 subspecies are recognised:
atriceps (Lesson, 1832) - Caribbean slope of Mexico from southern Tamaulipas southern (except south-eastern Veracruz and northern and central Yucatán Peninsula) to eastern Costa Rica.
suffuscus Wetmore, 1942 - Sierra de Tuxtla, in south-eastern Veracruz (eastern Mexico).