Grassquits are small tropical birds currently placed in the

tanager The tanagers (singular ) comprise the bird family (biology), family Thraupidae, in the order Passeriformes. The family has a Neotropical distribution and is the second-largest family of birds. It represents about 4% of all avian species and 12 ...

family, Thraupidae, although they had earlier been thought to be of the family

Emberizidae The buntings are a group of Old World passerine birds forming the genus ''Emberiza'', the only genus in the family Emberizidae. The family contains 44 species. They are seed-eating birds with stubby, conical bills. Taxonomy The family Emberizid ...

. They are common in the

West Indies The West Indies is an island subregion of the Americas, surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea, which comprises 13 independent island country, island countries and 19 dependent territory, dependencies in thr ...

and in Central and

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...

n countries around the

Caribbean Sea The Caribbean Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean in the tropics of the Western Hemisphere, located south of the Gulf of Mexico and southwest of the Sargasso Sea. It is bounded by the Greater Antilles to the north from Cuba ...

. * Cuban grassquit (''Phonipara canora'') * Sooty grassquit (''Asemospiza fuliginosa'') *

Dull-coloured grassquit The dull-coloured grassquit (''Asemospiza obscura'') is a small bird. It is recognized as a tanager closely related to Darwin's finches. Distribution and habitat It is found in northwestern Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and weste ...

(''Asemospiza obscura'') *

Yellow-faced grassquit The yellow-faced grassquit (''Tiaris olivaceus'') is a passerine bird in the tanager family Thraupidae and is the only member of the genus ''Tiaris''. It is native to Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Taxonomy In 1760 the Frenc ...

(''Tiaris olivaceus'') * Black-faced grassquit (''Melanospiza bicolor'') * Yellow-shouldered grassquit (''Loxipasser anoxanthus'') * Blue-black grassquit (''Volatinia jacarina'')

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