The species will build nests out of grass and plant fiber and place them in trees almost six meters above the ground.

The orangequit was formally described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the binomial name Motacilla campestris.

[2] Linnaeus based his description on the "American Hedge-Sparrow" that George Edwards had described and illustrated in his 1750 work, A Natural History of Uncommon Birds, from a specimen collected in Jamaica.

[3] The species was moved to the genus Euneornis by the Austrian zoologist Leopold Fitzinger in 1856.

[7] Its common name is derived from its orange throat and the English word quit, which refers to small passerines of tropical America; cf.