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Definition of Muscicapidae
1. Noun. Old World (true) flycatchers.
Exact synonyms: Family Muscicapidae
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Oscines, Passeres, Suborder Oscines, Suborder Passeres
Member holonyms: Flycatcher, Old World Flycatcher, True Flycatcher, Genus Muscicapa, Muscicapa, Genus Pachycephala, Pachycephala, Subfamily Turdinae, Turdinae, Subfamily Sylviinae, Sylviinae
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Oscines, Passeres, Suborder Oscines, Suborder Passeres
Member holonyms: Flycatcher, Old World Flycatcher, True Flycatcher, Genus Muscicapa, Muscicapa, Genus Pachycephala, Pachycephala, Subfamily Turdinae, Turdinae, Subfamily Sylviinae, Sylviinae
Lexicographical Neighbors of Muscicapidae
Literary usage of Muscicapidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Natural History by Sidney Frederic Harmer, Arthur Everett Shipley (1899)
"Some have not yet been defined at all, and few of them sufficiently for anyone
to be confident as to their limits. Thus in the Muscicapidae hardly ..."
2. Reports of Explorations and Surveys: To Ascertain the Most Practicable and by United States War Dept, Joseph Henry, United States Army. Corps of Engineers, Spencer Fullerton Baird (1858)
"... have been variously placed by different authors, Cabanis constituting them a
sub-family of Muscicapidae. The differences from the typical ..."
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