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Passerina
Painted bunting (Passerina ciris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Cardinalidae
Genus:	Passerina Vieillot, 1816
Type species
Tanagra cyanea Linnaeus, 1766
Species
See text
Synonyms
Guiraca LinariaBartram, 1791

The genusPasserina is a group ofbirds in the cardinal family (Cardinalidae). Although not closely related to the buntings in the familyEmberizidae, they are sometimes known as theNorth American buntings.

The males show vivid colors in the breeding season; the plumage of females and immature birds is duller. These birds go through twomolts in a year; the males are generally less colorful in winter. They have short tails and short slim legs. They have smaller bills than other Cardinalidae; they mainly eatseeds in winter andinsects in summer.

The blue grosbeak (P. caerulea) was once placed in the monotypic genus,Guiraca.

The genusPasserina was introduced by the French ornithologistLouis Pierre Vieillot in 1816.^[1] Thetype species was designated in 1840 as theindigo bunting (Passerina cyanea) by the English zoologistGeorge Robert Gray.^[2][3] The genus name is from the Latinpasserinus meaning "sparrow-like".^[4]

The genus contains 7 species:^[5]

Genus – seven species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Blue grosbeak Male Female	Passerina caerulea (Linnaeus, 1758) Seven subspecies P. c. caerulea (Linnaeus, 1758) P. c. interfusa (Dwight &Griscom, 1927) P. c. salicaria (Grinnell, 1911) P. c. eurhyncha (Coues, 1874) P. c. chiapensis (Nelson, 1898) P. c. deltarhyncha (Van Rossem, 1938) P. c. lazula (Lesson, R, 1842)	southern half of the United States and much of northern Mexico, migrating south to Central America and in very small numbers to northern South America; the southernmost record comes from eastern Ecuador.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Indigo bunting Male Female	Passerina cyanea (Linnaeus, 1766)	southern Canada to northern Florida during the breeding season, and from southern Florida to northern South America during the winter.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Lazuli bunting Male Female	Passerina amoena (Say, 1822)	southern Canada to northern Texas, central New Mexico and Arizona, and southern California.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Varied bunting Male Female	Passerina versicolor (Bonaparte, 1838)	Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas in the United States south throughout Mexico as far as Oaxaca	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Painted bunting Male Female	Passerina ciris (Linnaeus, 1758) Two subspecies P. c. ciris –(Linnaeus,1758) P. c. pallidior –Mearns, 1911	southern Arizona, southern New Mexico, southern and eastern Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, northern Florida, coastal Georgia, the southern coast and inland waterways such as the Santee River of South Carolina and northern Mexico.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Rose-bellied bunting Male	Passerina rositae (Lawrence, 1874)	Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Chiapas	Size: Habitat: Diet:	NT
Orange-breasted bunting Male	Passerina leclancherii Lafresnaye, 1840	Mexico	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

• Passerina
• Bird genera
• Birds of North America
• Taxa named by Louis Pierre Vieillot

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