New World Blackbirds (Icteridae)

Cuban Oriole (Icterus melanopsis) - HBW 16, p. 771

French: Oriole de Cuba German: Kubatrupial Spanish: Turpial Cubano
Other common names: Greater Antillean Oriole (when treated as conspecific with I. northropi, I. dominicensis and I. portoricensis)

Taxonomy: Ps.[arocolius] melanopsis Wagler, 1829, near Havana, Cuba.
Often treated as conspecific with I. northropi, I. dominicensis and I. portoricensis, but recent morphological and behavioural studies suggest that all of these merit full species rank. Present species is closely related to I. northropi, and sequence divergence in mitochondrial DNA between them slight (0·7%), but differs in plumage and is less clearly sexually dichromatic. Monotypic.

Distribution: Cuba, including I of Pines and cays off N coast (Guillermo, Coco and Paredón Grande).