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What is a grassquit?

What is a grassquit? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Any of several small tropical birds now placed in the tanager family Thraupidae (but previously in Emberizidae), common in the West Indies and in countries of Central and South America around the Caribbean Sea.
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They often associated in Oventeni with large groups of primarily Blue-black Grassquit in grassy or recently burned areas.
Each time the Grassquit sings, it jumps straight into the air and opens its wings to reveal white patches.
They include the bananaquit, the blue-black grassquit, the blackfaced grassquit, and the St. Lucia black finch.
Structural plumage coloration, male body size, and condition in the blue-black grassquit.
The Grassquit resides in small flocks and likes to use empty bananaquit nests for roosting at night.
The current guess is that it was the wonderfully named dull-coloured grassquit, because this is the bird with the closest genetic code to the Galapagos finches.

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