 As such, it is closely related to the famous Darwin's finches.In 1760 the French zoologist Mathurin Jacques Brisson included a description of the yellow-faced grassquit in his "Ornithologie" that was based on a specimen collected in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti).He used the French name "Le bruant de S. Domingue" and the Latin name "Emberiza dominicensis".