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Definition of Family Sylviidae
1. Noun. In some classifications considered a subfamily (Sylviinae) of the family Muscicapidae: Old World (true) warblers; American kinglets and gnatcatchers.
Generic synonyms: Bird Family
Group relationships: Oscines, Passeres, Suborder Oscines, Suborder Passeres
Member holonyms: Genus Polioptila, Polioptila, Genus Regulus, Regulus, Old World Warbler, True Warbler, Genus Silvia, Silvia, Genus Phylloscopus, Phylloscopus, Acrocephalus, Genus Acrocephalus, Genus Prinia, Prinia, Genus Orthotomus, Orthotomus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Sylviidae
Literary usage of Family Sylviidae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of Maine: With Key to and Description of the Various Species Known by Ora Willis Knight (1908)
"family Sylviidae. Kinglets and Gnatcatchers. g*. Bill either long and slender or
short and stout but not notched: perceptibly conoid. ..."
2. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"family Sylviidae—The Warblers | - | Washington: | Government Printing Office, |
1904.= Bulletin of the United States National Museum, No. 50, Part III. ..."
3. Life-histories of the Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania by Thomas George Gentry (1876)
"family Sylviidae. Sylvias. The birds constituting this large family are chiefly
denizens of the Old World, but sparingly represented in the New. ..."
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