| Melanospiza | |
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| Black-faced grassquit (Melanospiza bicolor) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Passeriformes |
| Family: | Thraupidae |
| Genus: | Melanospiza Ridgway, 1897 |
| Type species | |
| Loxigilla richardsoni Cory, 1886
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Melanospiza is a genus of Neotropical birds in the tanager family Thraupidae.