13. Merge two species of Hemispingus [ Hemispingus rufosuperciliaris Blake & Hocking, 1974, and H. goeringi (Sclater & Salvin, 1871)] and the two species of Compsospiza Berlepsch, 1893 (type = Compsospiza garleppi Berlepsch, 1893) into a more restricted

Poospiza

(type = Emberiza nigrorufa d’Orbigny & Lafresnaye, 1837, currently Poospiza nigrorufa) than is currently recognized, as Poospiza rufosuperciliaris, P. goeringi, P. baeri, and P. garleppi .

In addition to the above four species, this revised version of Poospiza includes the following five species currently recognized as belonging to Poospiza: P. hispaniolensis Bonaparte, 1850, P. rubecula Salvin, 1895, P. nigrorufa, P. boliviana Sharpe, 1888, and P. ornata (Landbeck, 1865) .

Comments. Burns et al. (2014) recommended a different approach for the taxonomy of this clade. They advocated restricting Poospiza to P. boliviana, P. o r na t a, and P. nigrorufa only, retaining Compsospiza, applying the available name Orospingus Riley, 1922, to Hemispingus goeringi and H. rufosuperciliaris, and creating two new generic names, one for Poospiza hispaniolensis and one for Poospiza rubecula . In this paper, we present an alternative, simpler approach that does not require two additional new generic names.