Lesser Antillean Euphonia

The Lesser Antillean euphonia (Chlorophonia flavifrons) is a species of bird in the family Fringillidae, the finches and euphonias. It is endemic to the Lesser Antilles. == Taxonomy and systematics == The Lesser Antillean euphonia has a complicated taxonomic history. It was originally described with the binomial Emberiza flavifrons. For the rest of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and into the twentieth it was treated as a full species. In much of the twentieth century it and several other euphonias were treated as subspecies of what was then the "blue-hooded euphonia" (Euphonia elegantissima sensu lato). By 1998 the blue-hooded euphonia was split into three species with what is now the Lesser Antillean euphonia treated as a subspecies of the "Antillean euphonia" (Euphonia musica sensu lato). Following further studies, in the early 2020s those three species were reassigned by most taxonomic systems to their present genus Chlorophonia that had been erected in 1851. However, BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World retained them in Euphonia. Genera Euphonia and Chlorophonia were long placed in the family Thraupidae, the "true" tanagers. Multiple studies in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries resulted in their being reassigned to their present place in…