Buntings and New World Sparrows (Emberizidae)

Yellow-shouldered Grassquit (Loxipasser anoxanthus) - HBW 16, p. 673

French: Pèrenoir mantelé German: Goldbug-Gimpelfink Spanish: Semillero Jamaicano
Other common names: Yellow-backed Grassquit/Finch/Grass Bird, Yellow-shouldered Finch

Taxonomy: Spermophila anoxantha Gosse, 1847, Mount Edgecumbe, Jamaica.
Genus may belong in tanager family (Thraupidae); appears to be part of a clade which also includes several other Caribbean genera (Euneornis, Melopyrrha, Loxigilla, Melanospiza), Tiaris grassquits, Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola), and “Darwin’s finches” (Certhidea, Platyspiza, Pinaroloxias, Camarhynchus, Geospiza). Monotypic.

Distribution: Jamaica.