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• Domain: Eukaryota () - Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
  • Kingdom: Animalia () - C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
    • Subkingdom: Bilateria () - (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
      • Branch: Deuterostomia () - Grobben, 1908
        • Infrakingdom: Chordonia () - (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
          • Phylum: Chordata () - Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
            • Subphylum: Vertebrata () - Cuvier, 1812
              • Infraphylum: Gnathostomata () - auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
                • Superclass: Tetrapoda () - Goodrich, 1930
                  • Class: Aves () - Linnaeus, 1758
                    • Subclass: Avialae () - Gauthier, 1986
                      • Infraclass: Aves () - (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
                        • Cohort: Neognathae () - Pycraft, 1900
                          • Superorder: Passerimorphae () - Sibley et al., 1988
                            • Order: Passeriformes () - C. Linnaeus, 1758
                              • Suborder: Passeres () - (C. Linnaeus, 1758) C. Linnaeus, 1766
                                • Superfamily: Passeroidea ()
                                  • Family: Emberizidae ()
                                    • Subfamily: Emberizinae ()
                                      • Tribe: Thraupini ()
                                        • Genus: Tiaris () - Swainson 1827
                                          • Specific name: olivaceus - (Linnaeus, 1766)
                                            • Form: ;
                                            Status: Accepted Name .
                                            
                                            Last scrutiny: 11-Oct-2007

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                                            Members of the genus Tiaris

                                            ZipcodeZoo has pages for 12 species and subspecies in this genus:

                                            T. bicolor (Bahama Black-Faced Grassquit) · T. bicolor bicolor (Black-Faced Grassquit) · T. canora (Cuban Grassquit) · T. canorus (Cuban Grassquit) · T. fuliginosa (Sooty Grassquit) · T. fuliginosa fuliginosa (Sooty Grassquit) · T. fuliginosus (Sooty Grassquit) · T. obscura (Dull-Coloured Grassquit) · T. obscurus (Dull-Colored Grassquit) · T. olivacea (Yellow-Faced Grassquit) · T. olivacea olivacea (Yellow-Faced Grassquit) · T. olivaceus (Yellow-Faced Grassquit)

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                                            Further Reading

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                                            • Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url p. 713.
                                            • Catalogue of a collection of American birds / belonging to Philip Lutley Sclater. London: N. Trubner and Co., 1862. url p. 107.
                                            • Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. 13 1938 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1938. url p. 119.
                                            • Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 91, p. 91.
                                            • The birds of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other island Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1901- url .

                                            Notes

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                                            Contributors

                                            • BirdLife International 2009. Tiaris olivaceus. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 05February2012.
                                            • Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
                                            • IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.

                                            Data Sources

                                            Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 15, 2007:
                                            
                                            

                                            • Avian Knowledge Network, eBird
                                            • Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics, Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics

                                            Identifiers

                                            • Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
                                            • Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-730382
                                            • Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13524100
                                            • IUCN ID: 246409
                                            • Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABPBX80020
                                            • Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 178341

                                            Footnotes

                                            1. Mean = 364.250 meters (1,195.046 feet), Standard Deviation = 763.530 based on 13,481 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]