Buntings and New World Sparrows (Emberizidae)

Cinereous Warbling-finch (Poospiza cinerea) - HBW 16, p. 627

French: Chipiu à tête cendrée German: Graukopf-Ammerfink Spanish: Monterita Cinérea
Other common names: Grey-and-white Warbling-finch (when treated as conspecific with P. melanoleuca)

Taxonomy: Poospiza cinerea Bonaparte, 1850, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
New molecular data indicate that genus forms a clade with the tanager (Thraupidae) genera Hemispingus and Thlypopsis, and that Compsospiza, which often subsumed within this genus, is sister to that clade. Until recently this species was treated as conspecific with P. melanoleuca. Monotypic.

Distribution: S interior Brazil from C Mato Grosso E to S Goiás, Minas Gerais and N São Paulo.