Haplospiza

Taxobox
name = "Haplospiza"

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image_caption = Slaty Finch (male) with leucistic tail.
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Passeriformes
familia = Thraupidae
genus = " Haplospiza "
genus_authority = Cabanis, 1851
subdivision_ranks = species
subdivision = "H. rustica"
"H. unicolor "

" Haplospiza " is a small genus of birds in the Thraupidae family. Sometimes classified in the bunting and American sparrow family Emberizidae, more recent studies have shown it to belong in the Thraupidae. Its two members breed in subtropical or tropical moist forest in Central and South America. They are often associated with bamboo.They are
* Slaty Finch "Haplospiza rustica"
* Uniform Finch "Haplospiza unicolor "

Footnotes

References

* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/53955/all Haplospiza unicolor] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 26 July 2007.
* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/53954/all Haplospiza rustica] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 26 July 2007.