Puerto Rican Bullfinch (Melopyrrha portoricensis) [XC33693]
by Daniel Lane from Hacienda Juanita's, W of Maricao, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico (call)
Puerto Rican Bullfinch (Melopyrrha portoricensis) [XC308521]
by from Bosque Estatal Maricao, Puerto Rico (call)
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.