Definition of Sialia

1. Noun. North American bluebirds.

Exact synonyms: Genus Sialia
Generic synonyms: Bird Genus
Group relationships: Subfamily Turdinae, Turdinae
Member holonyms: Bluebird

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sialia

Shug
Shuha
Shuha Shinto
Shui Xian
Shuli
Shulman
Shumard oak
Shumard red oak
Shumen
Shute
Shwachman syndrome
Shwartzman reaction
Shyla
Shylock
Sia
Sialia
Sialidae
Sialis
Sialis lutaria
Siam
Siamese
Siamese cat
Siamese cats
Siamese fighting fish
Siamese twin
Siamese twins
Siameses
Siamization
Sian
Siatista

Literary usage of Sialia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Birds of North and Middle America: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Higher by Robert Ridgway (1907)
"(Mexican plateau, north to southern"Arizona) sialia sialis fulva, adult male (p. 1-46) ff. Blue of upper parts deeper and more violaceous (averaging ..."

2. The Book of Cage Birds by Henry Beck Hirst (1843)
"sialia Wilsonii. THIS beautiful and favourite, though rather mournful voiced songster, is another of the many interesting natives of our own sunny land. ..."

3. The Code of Nomenclature and Check-list of North American Birds Adopted by by American Ornithologists' Union (1886)
"Motacilla sialis LINN. SN ed. 10, I. 1758, 187. sialia sialis HALDEM. ... HAB. Southern Arizona and Eastern Mexico. 767. sialia mexicana SWAINS. ..."

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